"provoke contemplation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to incite or stimulate deep thought or reflection on a particular topic or idea. Example: The painting's intricate details and use of light and shadow provoked contemplation about the artist's intentions and the deeper meaning behind the piece.
Staring into the circle is supposed to provoke contemplation of the void, and perhaps get the viewer to consider the great unknowable mysteries of the universe or, you know, just lead them to take a spill like some kind of real-life Wile E. Coyote.
42 Metaphors are meant to provoke contemplation and increase the potential for re-organisation of previous thoughts about pain.
Given that gender is often not considered relevant to health systems or understood in simplistic ways [ 1], we hoped that the photography competition would generate visual stories that would inspire imagination and provoke contemplation among health system researchers and practitioners about what gender means for their work.
The sea has a powerful music, one that provokes contemplation, best appreciated without distraction — no earphones, no music, no iPod.
Her most recent series of paintings, Mindscapes, engage the conscious mind with their stark beauty and provoke deep contemplation.
Notes that were attacked sharply, then sustained at length, provoked deep contemplation of their varying qualities of reverberation and decay.
"I have seen firsthand in my own meetings and conversations around the capital how it has provoked deeper contemplation within the financial community of the relationship between money and society," he wrote in an e-mail message.
This work, created by Fevered Sleep's David Harradine for National Theatre Wales is not a piece of theatre, but it does provoke an intriguing contemplation of weather that is an atmospheric pleasure.
This contemplation provokes the narrator's thoughts on waste that comes in nature: Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
These two cases -- one of imagination searching back into a vanished reality, the other of a recorded reality provoking imaginative extension and contemplation -- were the double doors into Mr. Bryars's future.
Their outdoor structures, each says, are spaces for contemplation, meant to provoke thoughts about ideal spaces rather than, say, frontier living.
