Sentence examples for provocative gaze from inspiring English sources

Under the Polish photographer's provocative gaze, the body is less a thing to be admired than probed and pushed past imaginary limits.

But my plays are not 'kitchen sink dramas.' My play-writing began inside my mother's gaze — that provocative way her eyes smiled after two glasses of Mondavi.

The provocation proved provocative.

Interestingly, too, it is nearly always women who are the object of the camera's gaze in these provocative photographs.

His energy centers around his hands, which he uses with ridiculous solemnity, as if he were a sorcerer; sometimes, with a provocative pose and a sophisticated gaze, he held a microphone upright from the base, then let it meaningfully droop.

Navel-gazing has never been more provocative.

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

The results can be artistically provocative, the best of such productions making theatergoers gaze in wonder at both dance and the world from which it comes.

Even in this day and age, "Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze" can be seen as a provocative exhibit.

As an exercise in undercutting the objectifying gaze of the camera, it is both provocative and playful.

I wear my swimsuit because it's a disclaimer against the male gaze, an "I'm not wearing anything provocative, so leave me be" insignia that deflects all accusations of "flaunting my curves".