Sentence examples for imagined provocation from inspiring English sources

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The holy man of Laramie has unwittingly fixed up Dirty Denny, a former gunslinger and an ornery, deranged thug known to have put forty-six men and nine women into early graves, always for some totally imagined provocation.

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The impasse has nothing to do with security fences or maritime blockades, settlements or checkpoints, or real or imagined provocations.

Resisting Washington is "part of the cultural fiber of Alaska, but it has definitely been taken to a new level by this administration," said Tom Waldo, a staff lawyer here for the environmental law firm Earthjustice".You see this particular eagerness to respond even to imagined provocations".

Can you imagine the provocation it would cause?

Haneke is often described as the "conscience" of European cinema: but he is more a Cassandra, announcing a coming catastrophe and fervently imagining its provocation, acting out the cataclysm's tinder-spark.

As security collapsed, neighborhoods banded together, almost spontaneously, to face any provocation, imagined or otherwise.

She calls them The Tree Graces imagined as both provocations and recollections of the marked, vulnerable yet resilient female body, coverings that protect her against easy assault and whose fabrication, he said, afforded her "a kind of healing activity as I stitch together all the textures and colors of our ancestresses".

And unless the Brotherhood declare the result a fraud and take to the streets en masse – it is not difficult to imagine how police provocation could turn such an event violent – the army can hardly adopt the techniques of massive repression so favoured in the past.

There were certain early signs of disaffection: sudden desperate maladies would force Nietzsche to cancel scheduled visits, and once, in 1874, he brought along a score by Brahms — no more deliberate provocation can be imagined — which he performed for the Wagners with what can only have been malicious glee.

Cardiac measures assessed resting heart rate (RHR) and heart rate reactivity (HRR) as participants imagined themselves being victimized in hypothetical provocation situations portrayed via video vignettes.

It is aroused, rather, by provocation from its real or imagined foes.

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