Far more, I suspect, will feel challenged and enlightened, possibly provoked, and undoubtedly enriched.
Charlie Hebdo's cover will no doubt offend some Muslims – and possibly provoke some.
What could possibly provoke an author to repudiate the product of months, if not years, of work?
"They want the people to feel hunger," the colonel said, "and possibly provoke a protest and a confrontation with the government forces".
But the group's leaders, based in Paris, have repeatedly complained about conditions in the new location, and both United States and United Nations officials are concerned that the group might not complete the relocation, possibly provoking Iraqi officials.
Furthermore, they're threatening, once again, to block any rise in the debt ceiling, a move that would damage the U.S. economy and possibly provoke a world financial crisis.
At the same time, this diplomat said, China feared that the Bush administration's hard-liners would gain advantage in determining policy, possibly provoking a military conflict in the region.
Market skepticism about Italy has led to high interest rates on its bonds, which if unchecked could rip huge holes into its budget and possibly provoke a full-blown credit crisis.
Her decision, on the one hand, to possibly provoke her stalker by writing the book, but on the other to preserve some privacy by giving herself and her stalker pseudonyms is, she acknowledges, hard to explain.
The imam working on the planned Muslim community center near ground zero said Monday he was open to all options to resolve the fierce dispute surrounding it, while possibly provoking the project's opponents by declaring that the site, two blocks from the former World Trade Center, was not "hallowed ground".
