Sentence examples for more provocative in from inspiring English sources

But as a legislator and mayor of Meaux, northeast of Paris, he has been decidedly more provocative in his statements.

These grandiose gestures announced a dynastic union and, what was more provocative in Rome, an imperial strategy.

Schell and Delury are more provocative in arguing that Liang's ideas of "creative destruction" also led, in a more or less straight line, to Mao Zedong.

"Mr Trump might just be more provocative in terms of how he says it, but the actual positions aren't that different".

This campaign is an opportunity to experiment with a new approach for Plan – namely to be more provocative in our publicity material as we believe this can increase our impact.

Critics responded that Iran's Islamic leaders might not be so self-restrained, given their belief that martyrdom wins God's approval; that Iran might share the bomb with terrorists, just as it shares conventional weapons; and that having nuclear protection might encourage Iran to be more provocative in local conflicts involving lesser arms.

Now, at 25, she is one of the more provocative figures in racing, heckled at times by critics who don't think she belongs on the track while being asked for her autograph by fans.

Marybeth Gasman, a professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania, who has written extensively on the College Fund, called the ads "a little safe," compared to what she described as "more provocative advertising" in the 1970s and 1980s.

"That's lovely, Heidi," says Hanna curtly, as her partner details her wish to turn her dance into "something more provocative", and in reply Heidi makes an arch reference to Hanna's "brilliant doorhandles from John Lewis".

He was physically restless, quick-witted, sociable, flirtatious, and obscene; one of the more provocative items in his catalogue is a canon for six voices entitled "Leck mich im Arsch" (K. 231/382c).

The proposal is one of the more provocative thoughts in the scholarly "Regionalism and Realism" (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), a new book by two State University of New York professors: Richard P. Nathan, who directs the university's Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, and Gerald Benjamin, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at New Paltz.