It's a provocative argument.
Professor Barabasi makes a provocative argument about "the market".
Mathew, in "Political Beethoven," makes a less provocative argument, though in the end his interpretation carries startlingly broad implications.
You put forward a provocative argument, and sometimes you are given the chance to explain what you meant.
But it was Mr. Graham who provided the most intriguing moment of the day, with his provocative argument in favor of Ms. Kagan.
In a now classic paper published in 1980, "Minds, Brains, and Programs," Searle developed a provocative argument to show that artificial intelligence is indeed artificial.
Its provocative argument rested on a solid foundation of facts, and a close, scholarly study of several generations of innovation and decline in the disk-drive industry.
Or in the provocative argument – in part a response to EM Forster's Aspects of the Novel – of a book like A Room of One's Own?
In a November 19 article, Peter Lehr makes a provocative argument about the rise of maritime piracy off the Horn of Africa.
According to Mr. McCann, Mr. Doyle also made a compelling, provocative argument linking the Jewishness of the novel's prosaic hero, Leopold Bloom, to contemporary Irish controversies about immigration.
He poses a provocative argument - "scale is the new geography and not understanding scale in this day and age is a form of illiteracy".
