Instead, Mr. Mubarak, 82, a former general, struck a defiant, even provocative note.
And yet little if anything said by these fair-minded, evenhanded characters strikes a truly fresh or provocative note.
Shortly after Judge Jon C. Blue of State Superior Court took the bench, Jeremiah Donovan, the chief defense lawyer, started on a provocative note, mentioning that many people in the "Petit posse" in the first rows were wearing pins for a Petit family foundation that honors the victims.
On a more millennialist and provocative note, the Singularity also offers a modern-day, quasi-religious answer to the Fountain of Youth by affirming the notion that, yes indeed, humans — or at least something derived from them — can have it all.
It ends on a puzzling and provocative note: "I have a suggestion for this genius.
Giesler describes Greenwood's work as "provocative", noting that it represents a "native's account" of Paganism, with Greenwood being "a native gone anthropologist".
The finding is especially provocative, Dr. Joyner noted, because only last month, another study, by researchers in Sweden, called into question another urine test for a performance-enhancing substance, testosterone.
This provocative research note advances new ideas and theoretical perspectives that are specifically designed to stimulate academic debate in this novel and rapidly developing area of scientific endeavor.
Hagen has plans to continue her provocative series, noting that so far it's been difficult to recruit men to take part in the series.
The painting embodies the "curious and disturbing" ways avant-garde art can reposition aspects of the status quo as "challenging," "transgressive" or "provocative," Bahl noted.
