Sentence examples for manifest provocation from inspiring English sources
Jacques Chirac, then the president, called it a "manifest provocation".
In 2006 its decision to reprint inflammatory cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, first published in Denmark, was described by Jacques Chirac, then France's president, as a "manifest provocation".
To me, the tenets are provocations and invocations that I hope will manifest.
The provocation proved provocative.
In the light of The Hateful Eight's berserk provocations, and Tarantino's seeming obliviousness to his manifest racial privilege, the idea of him as an authoritative cinematic voice on American race relations for future generations terrifies the living shit out of me.
When perception is so refined as to lose sight of manifest facts, or when the flames of outrage or desire are banked by comfort or fear, calculated provocations can have a salutary effect on sensibilities, and the passions they arouse always run the risk of spilling over into the danger zone — energy is never fully constructive, nor constructive from the start.
3.15am BST Provocation on provocation.
"It's provocation, 100 percent.
