Sentence examples similar to mildly provoking from inspiring English sources
The investigator then attempted to mildly provoke further reaction with awkward questioning.
It was clearly a large inflated balloon intended to provoke mildly bawdy humour".
"I think 'loose ends' is putting it mildly," he said in answer to a question from the audience, provoking laughter.
Talk of the world's fourth-most populous country, as Elizabeth Pisani notes in her new book, tends to provoke "a mildly panicked look in people's eyes…at drinks parties in London or New York".
But it's impossible to be outraged, provoked or even mildly entertained because the artworks are so slight and trite – I think, as I first enter the room.
In this letter yesterday, I was mildly critical of their ruling, and this provoked quite a response from our readers.
Often the first time teenagers have been unsupervised for longer than their parents' "let's fix our marriage" weekend mini-breaks, they're finally able to drink until they need serious medical attention, get shitty tattoos, or do something mildly depraved that provokes all kinds of haughty opinion pieces over here and actual anti-depravity legislation enforced by police over there.
The most powerful is called "star power" and has people experience what it is to be powerless– something that provokes strong reactions, to put it mildly.
The clumsy, mildly sensationalistic gendering of the boy who "feels he's…a girl," which persists through the first part of the interview, provoked me to share the link on Facebook along with some observations.
