Our role here is to provoke a conversation.
We are fascinated with them, and I wanted to provoke a conversation, a debate, about that".
Project 440 generated hundreds of comments on WQXR's Web site and provoked a conversation that also extended onto Twitter.
"We want to start and provoke a conversation," said Tim Mahoney, chief product and marketing officer at Volkswagen of America, and "we're off to a rock-solid start".
According to Arnita Jones, executive director of the American Historical Association, Mr. Ellis's case "has provoked a conversation about the limits and the values of truth".
"It has provoked a conversation about the limits and the values of truth," said Arnita Jones, executive director of the American Historical Association, adding that she had never heard of another case in which a professor lost an endowed chair "for cause".
Embassy is, of course, not merely a depiction of the Aboriginal tent embassy but an Aboriginal tent embassy in itself, provoking a conversation within the galleries of white culture.
"It's hard to tell right now," Spencer concludes: But the report will probably serve to provoke a conversation rather than answer it -- the fate of so many a presidential commission.
He has embodied it; he has perpetrated the act, and in doing so should provoke a conversation about the roles and responsibilities of those in media, particularly for a media outlet like the Australian which often lauds itself as a leader in dialogue about Indigenous issues.
"And whether you call his collection Negrophilia or black memorabilia, these are objects that always provoke a conversation, and Patrick understood that sometimes the only way that you can have this dialogue is by taking a route that isn't so clearly understood as good or bad.
His goal was to move from just provoking a conversation about the climate, to actually producing positive action.
