Sentence examples for feel provocative from inspiring English sources

It's not like I do these issues because I feel provocative.

"We would not yield to a few looters coming to that square and provoking our people, our nation, based on their misinformation," Mr. Erdogan said, in a speech that managed to feel provocative even as he called for a return to order, and as protesters returned to Taksim Square.

In Kawakubo's voluminous clothes one felt provocative yet mysterious and protected.

The language that Spielman uses feels provocative as she lumps the hijab together with sexualisation.

In contrast, the Louie-Pamela assault felt provocative specifically because it seemed so real, without the scaffolding of jokes and dreams.

"It felt provocative and challenging and anti-establishment – to the point where you ended up in a bit of black hole.

Ben Arnold 9.30pm, BBC2 The question posed by the subtitle feels provocative: few of the claims made for or against electronic cigarettes in the film seem as extraordinary as the fact that the answer wasn't figured out before they were allowed on sale.

From their harrowing adaptation of Harold Pinter, which began life in Leeds in 2007 – later described by the New York Times as "a startling and shaming presence in these United States" – to Minsk, 2011, their sardonic, sexualised take on life in present-day Belarus, everything BFT have done has felt provocative, powerful and unpredictable.

It's too bad, because otherwise the Rock Hall's boundlessness could have felt provocative, even poetic it might have furthered a compelling argument about the way culture moves, about how different people from different places can learn from each other and weave disparate experiences into new kinds of art.

"The Big Short," like "Spotlight," is an issue-oriented movie, and because its sickening look at Wall Street shenanigans dovetails with many of the populist issues being raised (mostly by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders) on the presidential campaign trail, it feels provocative and relevant.

Those can feel like provocative ideas, but the larger goal of the book is to contemplate how we can get our mind to work better.