Sentence examples for provocative subject from inspiring English sources

Now, it is hard to think of a more timely and provocative subject.

Many were, and still are, reluctant to offend religious sentiment by probing this provocative subject.

Each episode opens with Wanda doing a remote spot on a provocative subject.

Her use of paint and often provocative subject matter was sensitive, seductive and moving.

It was hardly a provocative subject, but someone in authority became jittery.

In recent years clothing as art has become an accepted and provocative subject for gallery exhibitions.

It mandated "special care" in handling provocative subjects, including "the sale of women, or of women selling their virtue," and "the deliberate seduction of girls".

It drew a line; it created an elect; it was sophisticated and Continental; it dealt with provocative subjects, with torture, sadism, hermaphroditism with sex and power.

But the references to colonialism and physical disability are drawn from the artist's personal experience — he was born in Britain, raised in Nigeria, and suffered a debilitating virus as a teen-ager — and remain provocative subjects.

Campbell, Dublin-born and Glasgow-based, is best known for his films, which weave fact and fiction to present portraits of provocative subjects, such as the Republican activist Bernadette Devlin and the carmaker John DeLorean.

They tackle seemingly provocative subjects and can even function as a force for change, but in the end their writings rarely challenge the underpinnings of China's single-party, authoritarian rule.