Sentence examples for provocative figure from inspiring English sources

Beyond his daughter's gaze, Said was certainly considered a provocative figure.

Mr. Summers, 58, is a provocative figure among key Democratic constituencies.

A provocative figure who often stood at odds with feminists, she helped shape the conservative movement over the course of decades.

But he also cut a provocative figure, holding out of a minicamp, often arriving late to meetings and missing practice after practice because of injuries.

Malema, a hugely provocative figure currently fighting allegations over his financial interests, argues that the political liberation of black people in 1994 has still not been matched by economic liberation from a white business elite.

An eternally mischievous and provocative figure within the book trade, Matthew was part of a remarkable generation that included Deborah Rogers, Sonny Mehta, Ursula Owen, Tom Maschler, Liz Calder, Ed Victor, Michael Sissons and Carmen Callil.

Perhaps elected female Democrats like Ms. Gillibrand are more moderate and pragmatic and less flashy than ideological and provocative figures like Ms. Bachmann and Ms. Palin.

Now, at 25, she is one of the more provocative figures in racing, heckled at times by critics who don't think she belongs on the track while being asked for her autograph by fans.

While the leader of the Sunni Future Movement, Saad Hariri, remains outside Lebanon because of security fears, provocative figures have stepped into the leadership vacuum in Tripoli and Sidon, Lebanon, to tap into Sunni anger, often using sharp anti-Shiite language.

One of the more provocative figures from David Spiegelhalter's Sex By Numbers: What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour (Wellcome Collection/Profile Books, £12.99) is the amount of semen being "produced" every minute across Britain: five litres (and that's based on the mean frequency of heterosexual intercourse alone).

This kind of language and pugilistic imagery, however, also evokes the baggage that makes Mrs. Clinton such a provocative political figure.