Sentence examples for provocative attitudes from inspiring English sources

Like Jody (Schine's 39-year-old insomniac music teacher), the representative modern woman of "Is Sex Necessary?" had a piquant way of talking with men about "exhilarating topics, and sitting with them in provocative attitudes," then "going quietly home to bed".

"I am proud to have been a young communist, but when you aspire to be president of a country like Spain, you have to let go of certain provocative attitudes," he said Sunday night in a television interview.

Ms. Goldberg said this provocative attitude was an abdication of judicial responsibility.

In 1995, when Mr. Mullet bought land in Bergholz, he was already known as a loner with a provocative attitude.

They detained dozens of people at the first sign of misbehavior racial slurs, obscenities or anyone with what was described as a "provocative attitude".

"Everyone wants to blame others for their own failures," Laughlin says of the Atlanta murders, a provocative attitude that is diluted because it is used to reveal the reporter's boyhood more than it is to enrich his current situation.

Many senior Iraqi officials were already anticipating that arms inspections would be getting under way for the first time since 1998, warning that the new inspectors should not adopt the kind of provocative attitude that led to so many crises in the past.

Meanwhile, Gabrielle is irritated with Ana's poor attitude, provocative wardrobe, and disregard for her curfew or other rules.

If his jokes were still funny or his attitudes still provocative, the crudeness of the picture would be less bothersome, but the net effect of all the energetic naughtiness is like that of being in a room full of 8-year-old boys who have just learned some new swear words (Scott).

We conclude that nurses and psychiatrists may be the target of future studies on their attitudes toward provocative behavioral patterns (e.g., suicide attempts) characterizing these patients.

People blamed the victim, arguing that his "attitude" was provocative, and that he wasn't a "real champion".