Sentence examples for provocative by from inspiring English sources

He is growing more provocative by the week.

Like its central character, the film is infuriating and provocative by turns.

"You can be provocative by being belligerent," he said in a television interview in February 1976.

"You could also be provocative by being too weak and thereby enticing others into adventures they would otherwise avoid".

Whatever one's take, the performances are rich, alive, provocative, by turns beautiful and odd, and continually captivating.

For the most part such pictures seem nonexploitative, reflecting a collaboration in which the models exult in their bodies, provocative by choice.

The outburst of popular rage, fanned by provocative statements by some rightist politicians, led to a government crackdown to stem the influx.

"The question is whether it was put up by the EDL to be provocative or by religious zealots to be racist," he told the Evening Standard.

This, in part, is in response to earlier complaints that a provocative tweet by President Trump against North Korea wasn't taken down by Twitter.

Gary Wills bolsters his provocative argument by listing all of the George W. Bush "security" measures quietly adopted and approved by the new Obama administration.

The situation is provocative, charged by flirtatious potential.