At Romney for President headquarters here, Mr. White peppers advisers with provocative questions, tests their assumptions and challenges their plans, just as he and Mr. Romney did at Bain Consulting.
The provocation proved provocative.
Pryor paints a provocative historical portrait while testing common assumptions about an American icon.
A deliberation [Overveielse], on the other hand, ought to be provocative, and turn the reader's assumptions topsy-turvy.
But the facts around the company's founders, its location, and its offerings provide a provocative challenge to many widely-held assumptions about what ingredients are required for consumer technology success.
Titanium, which is meant to commend forward-thinking and provocative new ideas that challenge earlier assumptions (regardless of media), attracted the most attention at Cannes this year; submissions were up more than 60% to 324.
In the end, Oracle offers an aesthetic appeal beneath which lurks a provocative undertone, challenging the audience's assumptions about global safety, surveillance, freedom, and power.
While many would agree that racial slurs are unacceptable, this argument contains some troubling assumptions: that reading challenging, provocative texts will further a national divide, and that honest depiction of racial bigotry is the same as acceptance of it.
A provocative thesis that takes us beyond conventional assumptions resides in a journal article not fit for an undergrad's Twitter universe: "On Intertemporal Selfishness: The Perceived Instability of Identity Underlies Impatient Consumption".
While the sex may be too brutal and too awash in selfishness for some, the novel is certainly provocative, and it certainly challenges a few cherished assumptions, which is what fiction, at its best, should do.
