Sentence examples for provoke arguments from inspiring English sources
Walking through the megastore's idealistic mock-ups of perfect Scandinavian homes is likely to provoke arguments about problematic areas, such as who cooks, cleans, or looks after children.
But it is worth remembering that religion can still provoke arguments, and worse, even when it loses the ability to influence people's behaviour in more benign ways.
I knew I was going to deliver something that was going to provoke arguments over whether it was art or porn, and I hoped it would encourage other projects within the porn world that pushed those boundaries".
The makers of a film adapted from Naomi Klein's book "The Shock Doctrine" probably knew it would provoke arguments, but not like this: The Independent of London reported that Ms. Klein, left, had withdrawn from participation in the film and does not appear in its credits as a writer or consultant or serve as its narrator.
Her dramatic story has continued to provoke argument among historians ever since, while the public interest in this 16th-century femme fatale remains unabated.
His views provoked arguments.
Since its premiere in Cannes it has provoked arguments and discussions, as well as absurd allegations that the film denigrates Orson Welles.
Like other monuments to Sept. 11, it provoked arguments over the meaning of the attacks and how to commemorate them, something the artists who designed it said was the point.
As Elizabeth Day writes in the New Review, the LRB "provides a space in which intelligent people can think differently; in which discomfiting thoughts can be voiced and provoking arguments can be aired with enough room to breathe".
Now influenced by Oriental mysticism, gestalt therapy techniques, and an Artaudian desire to abolish the distinction between art and life, The Living Theatre moved toward deliberately shocking and confronting its audiences in such works as Paradise Now (1968), in which the actors performed rituals, provoked arguments, and carried on until members of the audience left.
Revenge, honor, money, and race: it provokes arguments at every turn. .
