They are party poopers provoking nothing but suspicion from the locals.
Cameron provokes nothing like the visceral response that Thatcher did, but he has not erased people's resentment of privilege.
Contrast all that against the advertising hype, the talk of glitz and glamour, the Western journalists complaining about their hotel rooms, and the faux-earnest invocations of dignity, spirit and the heights of human achievement, and these Games provoke nothing so much as a general oily nausea.
The taunting was mostly verbal (such as when Adam announced to a table of peers in our Earth Science class, provoked by nothing other than my existence in the seat next to him, that I was One. Ugly. Girl)., but sometimes it became physical, as when Joe grabbed my books from my hands and threw them into a muddy puddle while we waited outside of school for the bus to arrive.
No strong narrative, no surprises, nothing subtle, not thought-provoking, nothing much to say.
The scientific community defines what is acceptable not only in the things that we do and say, but in the things that we chose not to do anything about, that provoke nothing more than a shrug.
When she tells us how Alex, the rebellious young man whom she and Laura shelter from the police, suddenly kissed her, she wonders if she did something to provoke him: "Nothing I can recall, but is what I remember the same thing as what actually happened?" Her own wedding is a blur.
Sketches and awed descriptions of Yosemite's grand views had reached the east in the mid-1800s, but nothing provoked public reaction like Watkins' photos, which were exhibited at a gallery in New York in 1862.
Even though the projected deficit for 2014/15 was an amazing £65bn higher than planned in the summer of 2010 (because of the extended recession he provoked), he has done nothing about it.
