Sentence examples for provocative explanation from inspiring English sources

In 1997, a musician and scholar named Edward Macan published "Rocking the Classics," in which he offered a provocative explanation.

By far the most provocative explanation offered in Iceland for the Icelandic rebound is what one of their medieval sagas would have simply called the Miracle of the Mackerel.

Now a geochemist and a paleontologist propose a provocative explanation: They may have been too hungry to diversify.

A new study published online yesterday in Nature Genetics offers a provocative explanation for its success in sub-Saharan Africa: Strains have evolved that appear to spread from person to person, unlike other NTSs.

In 1997, he worked out a provocative explanation for the abnormally speedy drift of continental plates about the same time as the Cambrian explosion: Earth's rotational axis had tipped over by as much as 90°, Kirschvink proposed.

A more provocative explanation is that the attitudes and opinions of the teachers consciously or subconsciously influenced the thinking of the students.

It was written to be a page-turner, full of cliffhangers and provocative explanations of Jesus's metaphors.

The too-many-gentlemen theory is compelling in Smith's shorthand, "miserable is that Land, where more are idle then well imployed"—but for years historians marshalled evidence in support of a range of provocative explanations, from malaria and typhoid to salt poisoning and the Little Ice Age, and, finally, to the colonists' stubborn preference for planting tobacco to sell instead of corn to eat.

From an autoimmune hypothesis to a model of impaired mitochondria, these provocative explanations challenge conventional wisdom, and may, in fact, open the door to a new way of thinking about ASDs.

Scientists have a provocative new explanation for what may cause Alzheimer's disease in the majority of patients: a mistake in how certain proteins are made.

And although poor partner performance, psychological issues, or physiological shortfalls are often cited as the reason, two evolutionary biologists now offer a provocative new explanation.