Sentence examples for provocative field from inspiring English sources

He recalled the furore over Barnes's provocative field positioning, extremely close at silly mid-on, and how criticism of his foot being too close to the mown pitch prompted him to plonk his boot a couple of feet into the forbidden territory – and a couple of feet more when the English crowd roared at him.

The song was so provocative that Field decided not to promote it right after Sept. 11.

Reviewer 2: This is an interesting and provocative study by Ruffault et al. It will certainly stir the field of respiration as it is claims that the RTN neurons expressing Atoh1 and Phox2b are "absolutely" necessary for chemosensation in neonates.

This is a genuinely exciting and provocative study; if the results hold up, they are extremely important for the field, and represent a major advance in our understanding of C4 evolution.

Waugh was not just a provocative presence on the field of play; he was also a great philosopher of provocation.

Even though he earned his Ph.D. at MIT--hardly an institution that's off the beaten track--his cultural and ethnic distinctiveness, along with his deep and broad learning, give him a unique and provocative perspective on the field of theoretical physics.

This is a novel and provocative finding in the field of addiction intervention.

Some have also raised provocative questions in their fields.

The Utopia of Rules is packed with provocative observations and left-field scholarship.

But again, teams still have an edge when hosting rivals from nearby, so there must be more to the story.In their book "Scorecasting", Toby Mascowitz, an economist, and Jon Wertheim, a journalist, make the provocative argument that home-field advantage, regardless of the sport in question, is caused entirely by biased referees.

The provocation proved provocative.