Sentence examples for provocative expression from inspiring English sources

She was smoking a cigarette, an amused and provocative expression on her face.

Mr. Berio's first composition for the theater, "Passaggio," had its premiere at the Piccola Scala in Milan in 1963 and was a provocative expression of its sole female character's subjection to social pressures.

The most provocative expression of the shadow beard is the scruffed-up quarter-inch stubble of the kind that appeared on Kevin Spacey at the Golden Globe Awards last month.

She wears a provocative expression and tight red American Apparel booty shorts.

These provocative expressions of power and aggression are the work of Carol Kreeger Davidson.

But what does this semi-seductive, faux-aggressive, part-provocative expression actually mean?

You find provocative correlations of expression and readthrough, i.e., genes that are highly expressed have a lower RTP score, whereas genes that are expressed at low levels have higher RTP scores.

Others, including rags like the New York Post and satirists like the Onion and Charlie Hebdo, chose a more colorful, sacrilegious and provocative form of expression.

The use of such costumes and words, however uncivil and provocative, enables the expression of particular views in an especially powerful and emotional manner.

A Municipal Superego To Police the Supersigns To judge from appearances, city officials have been less vigilant policing supersigns than they have been in trying to curb other forms of expression like provocative museum exhibitions, political gatherings on the City Hall steps and ads that poke fun at Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.

McAleese suggested as "provocative findings" that the expression of several markers is constitutive as revealed by our work.