Sentence examples for provoke visitors from inspiring English sources

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Lew, manager of curatorial affairs at New York's P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, is more conservative than in previous years, with little that will shock or provoke visitors.

Wave was designed to provoke visitors into thinking more about the wave of change that's disrupting many established business practices.

"The project is intended to provoke visitors into spontaneously ridding themselves of material consumer objects for the sake of creating their own individual work of art via deprivation, divestment and destruction," explains the project description.

Indeed, curator Karen Kramer consciously sought to build a show that would engage with current Indigenous American identity, culture, and creativity in a way that would provoke visitors to question their assumptions about what "authentic" or "traditional" Native fashion looks like.

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The nearby monolith, Uluru has also been classified a globally significant site where ancient culture now amazes and provokes visitors from around the world.

If it was an attempt to provoke the visitors – who Sunderland's manager also claimed would pull out of tackles in order to avoid injury – into action it seemed to be working during a first half largely controlled by a physically imposing visiting side for whom Yannick Bolasie and Newcastle's former favourite Cabaye gave Newcastle frequent cause for concern.

We should provoke our visitors to question what they see".

America, he says, provokes in visitors a sense of "the sublime," the sort of wonder and fear not experienced through the polite "double glazing" of windows or the proscenium arch of a television set, but felt, almost physically, as the embodiment of "the heartbeat, the life force" of this vast and still untamed continent.

Macaques, sometimes provoked by visitors, can become aggressive and will bite or scratch people.

The Design Museum show doesn't claim to have answers to all these questions, but it provokes the visitor into asking them.

Mr Saatchi paid large sums for all of this and, adman to the bones, attracted enormous publicity, showing Mr Hirst's shark at his original gallery in north London and later exhibiting the shartist and his mates in "Sensation", a group retrospective at the Royal Academy in 1997, and provoking one visitor to throw eggs at the paintings.At the time, they said it was all so radical.

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