Sentence examples for more provocative with from inspiring English sources
In recent years her lyrics have grown more and more provocative, with Ms. Jackson discussing everything from masturbation to bisexuality.
You could only be more provocative with a length of material if you rolled it tightly into a tube, tied a small knot at one end, and swung the impromptu cudgel back and forth underneath someone's chin, repeatedly flicking them about the jowls.
Not surprisingly, investment commentary has had to become much more provocative with outrageous prognostications necessary to grab much in the way of attention.
It's been two decades since artist Sun Mu defected from North Korea, and his depictions of the country he left behind have only become more provocative with time.
Priestly and Wells in their most forth-dimensional moods never thought of a more provocative experiment with time.
It's telling that HBO imposed the new, more provocative title, with its emphasis on abuse, and jettisoned the director Tommy Davis's original title: "One Minute to Nine," a reference to Ms. Maldonado's last minute of freedom before being sentenced in her husband's death.
And if you take a closer look at the more provocative claims associated with idealism, they're not always as outrageous as they sound.
Tests with eyes closed are known to be more "provocative" than tests performed with eyes open.
There are other practices bristling with more provocative intellectual and cultural voltage – Eric Parry Architects and Caruso St John, most obviously; and among the new wave, Lynch Architects, Maccreanor Lavington and Dow Jones.
My policy with more provocative cold callers was always to be rude, unless they were calling from India, in which case postcolonial guilt – the liberal white man's burden – would check me.
(And when does the movie with more provocative ideas ever win?) Or else, as Nikki Finke writes at Deadline Hollywood, "Academy voters rewarded a tiny film that made no money just because almost everyone in Hollywood really dislikes James Cameron".
