Lieutenant Fanale is a lesbian, and she likes provoking the red-cheeked Irish rookies who arrive in the spring.
Either way, it is telling that a woman daring to wear whatever she liked provoked an extreme reaction.
The senator, who always found Mr. Bush to have a shorter attention span on the issues than on chats about flying jets, still likes provoking his former rival.
And he admits that he likes to provoke people with phrases like "We walk amongst each other in a deep dream committing small acts of violence against one another".
He liked to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just liked to set off the thought process.
For another, Mr. Obama liked to provoke.
Higher Ground The neo-soul singer Erykah Badu likes to provoke.
"He needs that uncomfortable place," she told me, adding, "He likes to provoke.
The serious story — suicide, death, tragic romance — was a departure from the Tom Ford of Gucci who liked to provoke.
(Norquist likes to provoke liberals with the creative theory that the crime rate has fallen because more Americans have concealed-carry permits).
"I was not about to get in the ring with this Sumo champion representing Platonic metaphysics," says Chick, as he ducks one of the intellectual debates that Ravelstein likes to provoke.
