Sentence examples for provocative response from inspiring English sources

My first comment was made without thinking as a provocative response to the zombie image.

Such an oversimplification is a provocative response to a profound mystery.

He has to give a provocative response so that people can look at things from different angles.

Last year, the British critic Philip Clark had a provocative response to the perennial question of how to save classical music from its so-called image problem the perception that it is stuffy, élitist, and irrelevant.

But asked what advice he would offer Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, who recently hedged on running for mayor, Mr. Bloomberg gave a provocative response: "You never want to go through life saying I could have.

(Examples: "Are there different kinds of Mexican food?" "Why do Mexicans paint murals on their cars?" "Is Mitt Romney part Mexican?") Mr. Arellano, whose parents were both born in Zacatecas, says that he has always been amazed by how little most Americans know about the history and culture of Mexico, and the column is a playful — and provocative — response.

My columns about experts and objectivity elicited provocative responses from -- well, from people on both sides of the issue.

One of the more provocative responses came from a reader who opined that he's actually like to see Shakespeare plays translated into modern language.

But Gesel Mason, herself a black dancer and choreographer, plunged headlong into the subject on Friday night at Joyce SoHo in "No Boundaries: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers" and came up with some provocative responses.

She alleges that one West reporter contacted Noongar who were known to be in disagreement, and quoted one to the other, so as to elicit provocative responses.

Jurowski's approach to Strauss's still-provocative response to Nietzsche, meanwhile, was much too cool: a clean, clear examination of texture and structure, but notably lacking in emotive edge.