Sentence examples for provoke with from inspiring English sources

Virilio loves to provoke with vast diagnoses.

Rhys Webb: The Horrors While most provoke with volume, Connan Mockasin's delicate touch is captivating and mind-melting.

Minogue has never commanded the same level of artistic credibility as Madonna, nor the willingness to provoke with every step.

We wanted to provoke, with the help of inspirational contributors, some complex conversations: about freedom of expression, literacy, emotion and – of course – gender identity".

These are strange days for haute couture, and no more so than at Dior, where Mr. Galliano, with his fearless embrace of sex and the more lewd elements of pop culture, continues to provoke with brilliant, if wayward, mischief.

Following the acerbic Neil LaBute and the sceptical humanity of Bruce Norris, we have had Ayad Akhtar's quizzing of Muslim inheritance in Disgraced, and now David Mamet setting himself to provoke with a challenge to the idea of affirmative action.

Rather than provoking with inquiry, they insist on correct answers.

The flaming rage it provoked, with the desire publicly to humiliate Hooke, however, bespoke the abnormal.

But it also feels beleaguered and provoked, with its cultural heritage under existential threat.

In this postseason, like his Lakers recently, Jackson has been at the top of his game -- provoking with a purpose.

Those albums offer delightful shocks, such as the "Name That Tune" trouble that Monk so gleefully provokes with his radical rearrangements of familiar melodies.