Sentence examples for provocative roles from inspiring English sources

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.

Television has already played a provocative role in Georgian politics.

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

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.

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.

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas continues to play an especially provocative role; on Tuesday he used a visit to New York to challenge Mr. Obama on his Middle East policy just as the president was gathering with world leaders across town at the United Nations.

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.

It has criticised Arab broadcasters for using what it calls made-up videos from YouTube and accused international journalists of playing a provocative role.

Caplan is known these days for her provocative role on Showtime's "Masters of Sex," but she will forever live on as the beloved Janis Ian from "Mean Girls".

It may be hard to imagine anyone other than Sharon Stone in the provocative role of Catherine in "Basic Instinct," but if it weren't for a few words of advice from her acting coach, Stone may never have been cast in the 1992 thriller.