Sentence examples for like provocative from inspiring English sources

They are more like provocative proposals than pieces of music you can live with.

Those can feel like provocative ideas, but the larger goal of the book is to contemplate how we can get our mind to work better.

This is an interesting conundrum for a boy whose father died when he was an infant, and who feels he must embody masculinity, or the more stereotypical aspects of masculinity, like provocative naughtiness and bluntness.

A Municipal Superego To Police the Supersigns To judge from appearances, city officials have been less vigilant policing supersigns than they have been in trying to curb other forms of expression like provocative museum exhibitions, political gatherings on the City Hall steps and ads that poke fun at Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.

In another year, the show's insistence on humanizing fascists might have seemed like a provocative choice — an effort, like Arendt's, to understand how normal people can find it in themselves to commit the worst atrocities.

"I like to create provocative imagery," she told me.

But I think we need to take it seriously enough to say that there are obviously people who would like to be provocative, hope that there is not just a reaction but there is an overreaction, then people blame the people who overreact and the situation gets out of control".

I like asking provocative questions or questions that are just out of the blue like, "If you were a superhero, who would you be? Why?" How would you answer that question?

Like much provocative art, this one wouldn't strike anyone as offensive, but for the title.

Everyone thought she was cute, I didn't like the provocative nibbling of an asparagus thing.

This reads like a provocative combo, but on the wall it doesn't add up to much.