Sentence examples for how provocative from inspiring English sources
He knows how provocative it is to choose the phrase "ethnic cleansing" for the title of his latest book.
Brennan is under no illusions about how provocative this case is today, 150 years after Mill made it.
"There's still a debate about exactly what we are seeing and how provocative it is," said one senior official.
Like La Traviata, La Bohème has become so familiar that we can easily forget how provocative it should be.
Dempsey said that broadly they discussed "the tensions in the South China Sea and how provocative actions can lead to confrontation".
Tinker with that image and you get the maddening situation of serious American fiction writers: no matter how original, provocative or unsettling their work, they might as well be walking on tiptoe outside the provocative, unsettling, noisy distractions of the Grand Hotel -- or carnival -- of American life.
How little provocative he was to be seen in the little interruption he suffered.
Mr. Chappelle, who in 2005 withdrew from his popular Comedy Central series, "Chappelle's Show," amid its runaway success and his concerns about how its provocative racial satire was being received, has been a headliner on the Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival, a national tour presented by the Web site Funny or Die.
Unfortunately, Reinhold never fleshed out this fascinating outline, never provided any arguments for the same, and never indicated how this provocative claim concerning the relation of willing to knowing could be reconciled with the "immediate certainties" of his starting point.
Storr's [MOMA curator for the show] spacious, brooding, intellectual installation is a model of how to show provocative art without betraying its provocations.
