Sentence examples for provocative role from inspiring English sources

Television has already played a provocative role in Georgian politics.

What this leaves out - if not denies - is art's provocative role.

Ms. Gaskell's new photographic exhibition is a departure from her earlier series, which, in part, owed their popularity to the provocative role girls played in her images.

Mr. Barak could portray Mr. Sharon as a figure reviled in the Arab world who was condemned by the international community for a provocative role in the present violence.

Mr. Smith may be playing a provocative role in a city famous for its troubled race relations, but he's also a megastar and largely shielded from everyday stings, which, as it happens, is also true of his character.

But many black theologians (even those who take strong exception to Mr. Wright's views and argue that black liberation theology is a politicized artifact of an earlier era) defend him and say that the news media and Obama's foes have caricatured him and misunderstood the intentionally provocative role of a liberationist pastor.

Winslet further demonstrated a tendency to choose provocative roles with Quills (2000), in which she played a laundress smuggling manuscripts written by the Marquis de Sade out of the insane asylum where he is imprisoned.

And 13-year-old Dakota Fanning, who lands at No. 4 with $4 million, inspired her first media maelstrom (how quickly they grow up!) for her sexually provocative starring role in Hounddog her character gets raped an independent film that premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

The play, which stars Jeremy Piven, Andrew McCarthy, Keri Russell and the newcomer Ashlie Atkinson in the provocative title role, tells the story of a nice little guy (Mr. Piven) who meets a nice big girl (Ms. Atkinson) and pays the social price from a pair of chauvinistic friends (Mr. McCarthy and Ms. Russell).

Preceding infections may play a provocative part.

That's how I have played Fable II, the delightful and provocative new role-playing game from Microsoft for the Xbox 360.