Sentence examples for is highly provocative from inspiring English sources

In a genre in which it is controversial to claim that the Vatican lied about Christ having kids, The Last Bookaneer is highly provocative.

Spike Lee's Bamboozled does so to great effect, Jean Genet's The Blacks is a minstrel show written by a white playwright that is highly provocative and charged with racial tension to expose the hypocrisy and deeply embedded racism found at all levels of society.

Correspondents say the film at the heart of the row, which appeared on Youtube translated into Arabic, is highly provocative and insulting to Muslims.

Iran's "actions were highly provocative", he said.

The leaking of the speech was highly provocative.

Far from defusing the situation, the remarks of President Thein Sein were highly provocative.

But researchers who are familiar with the four proteins said the finding was highly provocative given what was known about them.

But the move will be viewed as being highly provocative by opponents of embryo research and will be vigorously opposed by many religious leaders and politicians.