The phrase "provocative look" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase usually refers to a facial expression meant to tease or entice someone. For example, "She gave him a provocative look when he asked if she wanted something to drink."
A provocative look at how e-activism is changing the nature of contentious politics.
Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate (Penguin) is another provocative look at our make-up as social beings.
The best science book I read was Adam Alter's "Drunk Tank Pink," which is a really provocative look at how much our behavior is contextually determined.
His previous book, The Bottom Billion, a provocative look at the economics of the poorest, was lauded by US treasury secretary Larry Summers and billionaire George Soros.
But it provides a provocative look at a group of radical artists as they began to shape a movement whose principles still resonate.
There are two shows that are must-sees in Cardiff: Kaite O'Reilly's In Water I'm Weightless takes a provocative look at the body – it's at the Weston Studio.
Provocative looks at pressing issues.
PETER PAN collars, those demure relics of the Eisenhower era, turned downright naughty on the fall runways, and nowhere more so than at Louis Vuitton, where they appeared in nearly all of Marc Jacobs's provocative looks.
The magazine's writers and photographers paid attention to the minute gestures and badges that divined the real from the fake Gorman argues that the magazine's cool aesthetic even persuaded bands to dress better, or at least to adopt more provocative looks, so that they could keep pace with what was going on a few pages over.
Not in any sort of provocative, look-at-me-wearing-these-underthings type of way, but in a straightforward, this-is-what-they-look-like-while-not-being-worn type of way.
Having added titles like actress, author and philanthropist to her resume, Madonna has experimented with less provocative looks like when she went all old Hollywood glamour as Eva Perón.
