Sentence examples for it provokes us from inspiring English sources

Let us be the judge of what the whole mess means and what sins, if any, it provokes us to confess to.

That feels like it provokes us to say, have we got it right with gender equality and is the theatre an interesting lens through which to look at that?

Instead it provokes us to think, opening up rather than closing down possibilities.

"Ultimately", he says, this production is about "celebrating the power of theatre" and "the necessity of it to provoke us, inspire us and educate us".

Reading about them might make us more likely to support liberal immigration policies – but then again, it might provoke us to dismiss them as "cockroaches", or a "swarm of people", as David Cameron did today.

In other words, pleasure is the carrot that provokes us to extricate ourselves from such states, but it almost always fades quickly.

"Although the U.S. makes desperate efforts to disturb peace while wielding a nuclear stick, it can not provoke us as long as we have the strong nuclear deterrent".

"They are clearly trying to pinch Russia where it hurts most, to provoke us," said Mr Putin, who talked darkly of Georgia's "foreign sponsors".

It also seems to provoke us to infer that blacks want to literally kill whites.

But if we accept that art can also challenge and provoke us, does it not follow that it can disturb and outrage us – and possibly even repel us?

What is it about the question -- and the stories it provokes -- that helps us deal with the trauma?