Sentence examples for not provocative from inspiring English sources

The United States will begin large-scale annual drills with its ally South Korea later this month that it bills as defensive in nature and not provocative.

Using three monitors to view a man who runs toward a nondescript building but never gets there because the camera shot changes each time he seems to reach his destination is just not provocative.

I have regretted them for many years since — not just because they were stupid, not at all funny, wildly insensitive, and certainly not provocative like I had hoped, but also because they don't reflect the person I am today or have been for some time".

3. Personal not provocative.

"Who determines what images (or stories?) are deliberatively provocative as opposed to unintentionally provocative or just plain old provocative or not provocative at all?

"This is not provocative.

For a call girl in Pony, taking up the rights of streetwalkers wasn't provocative - it was civic duty.

"It's not deliberately provocative, it's not because somebody whipped out a clown with a camera and a donkey and some jello," Sarah Wendell said.

Jim was not, however, provocative in the sense of which he was later accused".

It's not even provocative.

If not exactly provocative, "Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical" is at the very least thought-provoking.