"I was provoked," she said.
My excuse is I was provoked.
And when California voters passed Proposition 8 outlawing gay marriage, I was provoked into fury.
Her own was barely flatter than mine and I was provoked, sweetly.
"I was provoked by a man whom I admire very much, John Paul II," Mr. Herling said in discussing the motives that led him to write the story.
For 12 months or more phrases like "politique des auteurs," "Pauline Kael," "received wisdom," "reflexively contrarian" and "formalist hack" would not pass my lips or issue from my keyboard, no matter how much I was provoked.
I was provoked, nay, angry, to see the lazy, overgrown men, do nothing to help their wives; and, when the young women pulled off their bracelets and finery, to chop wood, the cup of my wrath was full to overflowing, and, in a fit of honest indignation, I pronounced them ungallant, and indeed savage in the true sense of the word.
However the former Manchester City striker added: "I made a mistake when I was provoked... but I'm not going to apologise to everyone.
I was provoked by one of my very scholarly contrabass players, who had been doing some independent scholarly research.
