Sentence examples for provocative characters from inspiring English sources

But the show's popularity with general audiences seemed to be inspired not only by its sexual candor but also by its provocative characters.

Her previous films include Point Break, Strange Days and K-19: The Widowmaker. "I'm drawn to provocative characters," she told the Guardian in video interview last year.

Ms. Daniele's "Cada Noche... Tango" gets the evening off to a riveting start with its sultry tangos, provocative characters, undercurrent of violence and jealousy and erotic central triangle, formed by the arrival of the Outsider (Sarah Skogland).

Director-cinematographer Lotfy Nathan takes a decidedly judgment-free approach to the provocative characters and situations in his urban documentary "12 O'Clock Boys".

Rees is an urbane, shrewd and confidently provocative character, a trained architect who understands the commercial value of star practitioners.

"More and more evidence emerges indicating that this criminal act had an openly provocative character," Aleksandr Lukashevich, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said in the statement.

"Speaking about the content of her questions, Kadyrov noted that they carried a provocative character and were not directly linked to the republic," the statement said.

"More and more evidence emerges indicating that this criminal act had an openly provocative character," Aleksandr K. Lukashevich, a spokesman for Russia's foreign ministry, said in the statement.

The imaginatively brut look Ms. Sánchez gave its pages reflected the provocative character of its contents, which in turn reflected a volatile, often violent, period in Puerto Rican history.

She was right, of course, both about the provocative character of the word "feminism" itself, and about the irreversible effect women's emergence, in every sense, was soon to have on modern society: out of the house and into jobs; out of men's shadow and away from stereotypes.

In the programme O'Reilly gives laddish advice on how to "pull birds" under the guise of a deliberately provocative character with lines such as: "Just show her your penis; if she cries, she's just playing hard to get," and: "If she's looking at me and playing with her hair, by the end of the night she'll need a wheelchair".