Sentence examples for provocative element from inspiring English sources

(The original film's most provocative element may have been its famous advertising line: "rated X by an all-white jury").

While much discussion has been made of the West persona, both in public and on record, the most immediately provocative element of Yeezus is its sound.

If you are going to screen every book for any depiction of violence as a provocative element, you'd have to review every book in the school library.

But the bill's most provocative element -- the spending caps on political campaigns -- has been disparaged as unconstitutional by many lawmakers in both parties and by the State Elections Enforcement Commission.

That Ms. Monk, who gave comparable brashness to a similar role in the 1994 revival of William Inge's "Picnic," doesn't ask for easy sympathy is the most provocative element in this latest production of "Cuckoo," which is directed by Nicholas Martin.

But it would have added a very provocative element to the unequivocally solid, mainstream picks so far for the Obama cabinet.

The government and democracy advocates braced for another showdown over internal security legislation in the coming weeks after Hong Kong's leader today softened some of the bill's more provocative elements but insisted that the legislature pass it quickly.

His explanation involves one of the most interesting and provocative elements of his theory: the doctrine of counterparts.

Early industrial performances often involved taboo-breaking, provocative elements, such as mutilation, sado-masochistic elements and totalitarian imagery or symbolism, as well as forms of audience abuse, such as Throbbing Gristle's aiming high powered lights at the audience.

Kang pointed to the show's provocative elements, in particular an early scene in which the character of Jamal (played by Jussie Smollett) shared a same-sex kiss with his boyfriend, Michael Rafaell de La Fuente).

4.1.3 Provocative factor Noun: Transient and sporadic endogenous or exogenous element capable of augmenting seizure incidence in the patient with chronic epilepsy and evoking seizures in susceptible non-epileptic individuals.