Sentence examples for provocative reputation from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Sharon, who has a provocative reputation among Palestinians, is no ordinary Israeli.

For his part, Mr Fox Weber was obviously intrigued by the glimpses he was given of the artist's manipulative character, provocative reputation and glamorous past.

The reference was to the provocative reputation for presenting copious quantities of playfully racy cheesecake and beefcake photography that the quarterly has earned since it was introduced in fall 1997.

"Our Finest Clothing: A Layered History of our Skin" lives up to the museum's provocative reputation.

On a very myopic and basic level, many would take the time out to consider Brown's sexual exploitation as a way to boost his own personal provocative reputation.

The provocation proved provocative.

Its more provocative claims against Vermeer's reputation don't add up, but the trickery delights.

Mr. Ma, an elfin man with a penchant for talking, otherwise lived up to his reputation for making provocative statements.

But when the picture was unveiled at a Bond Street gallery in 1958, Freud had changed its name to The Procurer, a wildly provocative name given Litvinoff's reputation for providing sexual partners for his powerful friends.

Roger Scruton, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has published some influential volumes with scholarly imprint Continuum, including The West and the Rest, A Political Philosophy and Sexual Desire, establishing a reputation as a provocative and contrarian thinker.

I was making enough money - and still do - that I didn't need to sell that.' Reluctantly, Harry met with the filmmakers, who had already established a reputation for creating provocative and empathetic films about characters as diverse as Monica Lewinsky and Manhattan club kid murderer Michael Alig.