Sentence examples for provoked with from inspiring English sources

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.

"Some of the attendants seemed provoked with strangers romping all over the building and so the competition was called off and the laurels left with Poland".

The Environment Secretary's act of public contrition helped to calm the political storm the Government provoked with its controversial scheme to offload 637,000 acres of woodlands from public ownership.

The letters page from 6 October 1998 shows the ire that Pullman provoked, with one letter decrying his piece as "mean-spirited and biased", another defiantly praising Narnia for its feminist qualities.

Resurrecting one of the best lines from her convention speech, Clinton said: "A man who could be provoked with a tweet should not have his finger anywhere near the button".

Virilio loves to provoke with vast diagnoses.

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

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

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

While Paul Kildea's recent biography provokes with a controversial theory about Britten and syphilis, Powell is not looking to uncover any prurient scandal.