Sentence examples for provocative degree from inspiring English sources

Susan Stroman's production – cleverly and simply designed by Beowulf Boritt – mines the dark, brutal humour to an entirely merited and an almost uncomfortably provocative degree.

"Some of the generalizations Colette is tempted to draw" from her encounters "are provocative in the highest degree," Margaret Wallace wrote here in 1933.

So I'm sitting on the plane with other business executives, and I pull up this large Power Point presentation demonstrating pages and pages of the types of photos that would probably be rejected as too provocative: women with varying degrees of cleavage and scantily clad men, often in unusual, if not entertaining, poses.

The follow-up moments of data collection and outcome measures are listed in Table 3. Lasègue's sign is defined positive if the patient experiences a typically dermatomal area of pain reproduction and pelvic muscle resistance below a unilateral 60 degrees angle provocative straight leg raising.

The provocation proved provocative.

Kristin Knox, who writes the Clothes Whisperer fashion blog, finds transparent skirts provocative in just the right degree.

The Spirit Awards, now in their 25th year, honor low-budget American films based on such criteria as original, provocative subject matter and the degree of independent financing.

He'd throw out a provocative statement, and then reverse one hundred eighty degrees and throw out another one.

His point was provocative.

This is a powerful, provocative piece of work, which leaves a zero-degree burn on the retina.

The cumulative effect is more than some literary six-degrees-of-separation parlor game; it is oddly provocative.