Sentence examples for provocative context from inspiring English sources

Despite its provocative context, "The Mercy Seat" is not one of those LaBute works that sting like a scorpion.

A later performance with Taylor and the percussionist Tony Oxley, recorded in concert in 2002, displays his later art in a provocative context.

Harder to fathom was why, given a familiar tale enacted by performers of proven worth and a timely, provocative context, "Judith" was so evidently undersold on Wednesday.

Daniel Harding, the young British conductor who will lead the Dresden Staatskapelle in Brahms's "German Requiem," said the engagement provided an opportunity to work within a provocative context.

Despite its provocative context, "The Mercy Seat," which stars Liev Schreiber and Sigourney Weaver as adulterous lovers, is not one of those LaBute works that sting like a scorpion.

This unique, still fascinating film includes the director's trademark melding of conscious and unconscious imagery, as in a new and provocative context, we revisit Buñuel's signature themes: namely, the well-ordered but vacuous lives of the bourgeoisie, and the base desires lurking beneath their routinized lives and placid facades.

I had looked forward to seeing how the museum's formidably erudite curators would rise to the challenge of creatively reimagining their roles by presenting art in fresh, provocative new contexts.

He said that if there were any songs censored, he was not told.Despite playing "Street Fighting Man", which seems astonishingly provocative in the context, the Stones have not dodged censure entirely.

From Ms. Wang, she chose a bridal gown, but one that was red, since the color was both provocative, in the context of a wedding, and evocative, in the sense of China.

"It is vitally important that all parties work together openly in accordance with the rule of law and avoid in any context provocative actions which are likely to add to, or create, tensions," Turnbull told reporters travelling with him in Vientiane, the capital of Laos.

[Note for TomDispatch Readers: A small bow to several sites that I always find particularly helpful: my daily companion Antiwar.com, Juan Cole's invaluable Informed Comment blog, the always provocative War in Context run by Paul Woodward, and Noah Shachtman's Danger Room at Wired magazine.