Sentence examples for provocative message from inspiring English sources

The Web site allows voter outreach in the form of e-cards, with a sarcastic or provocative message.

Harris, whose 14 novels include the bestselling Chocolat, is due to deliver this provocative message at the Manchester Literature Festival on Monday evening.

Bismarck edited William's telegraphed description of this interview, and on July 14 he published this provocative message (the Ems telegram), which accomplished his purposes of infuriating the French government and provoking it into a declaration of war.

The case of Dariano vs. Morgan Hill Unified School District drew greater attention because an American flag was considered the provocative message.

On 18 May 2011, the prolific dominatrix-turned-pornstar Asa Akira sent her Twitter followers one brief, but provocative message: "Ass is the new pussy".

Russia also sends a provocative message to NATO suggesting that if the alliance conducts training exercises at Russia's doorstep, Moscow will mobilize its advanced weapons system.

And, referring to the act of posting provocative messages online – known as "trolling" - she added: "[We should] tweet the holding message 'Waiting for a troll solution.'" She received support from actress Rebecca Front and comedian Dara Ó Briain, among others.

Trolling, defined as the act of posting inflammatory, derogatory or provocative messages in public forums, is a problem as old as the Internet itself, although its roots go much farther back.

In a recent paper, a group of Cornell researchers proposed that our browsers could bombard us with strange but provocative messages to make us alert to the very information infrastructure that some designers have done their best to conceal.

[Related: backpedalling, cop-out, excuses] Traditional: One who posts deliberately provocative messages (e.g. to a news site or message board) or writes knowingly provocative articles (e.g. this one) with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument.

That made Mr. Godfrey, a familiar figure in various news groups, decidely unpopular with the Internet's free speech champions, who then began posting further provocative messages about him, calling him a pedophile and a necrophile, among other things.