Sentence examples for provokes as from inspiring English sources

It enables us to confront extremes of behaviour, personal and public; it helps communicate difficult issues; it challenges and provokes as well as lifts the spirit.

His book "The Delighted States" shoves its delirious way around and through four centuries of great novelists, tumbles them down one trapdoor and hauls them out of another; it provokes as much as evokes and, in general, sets up a dance whose music he partly finds in them and partly invents for them.

Safer observed on 60 Minutes in 2009 that "even in a mudslinging city like Washington, it's difficult to find someone who provokes as much venom as Rick Berman".

A History of Violence is a thoughtful film that provokes as it entertains.

Certainly the medical team's investigation provokes as many questions as it answers.

Mr. Ford, a clear and lively writer, probes and prods and provokes as he steers his way through this contested terrain.

9. Founded in 1982, the festival tends to be thought provoking as well as entertaining.

Mr. Albee is playing his customary mind games, mixing literary allusions with absurdity, being provoking as well as provocative.

Self-driving cars might provoke as much of a social and economic revolution as the railways did.

Tony Harrison's V This expletive-laden poem didn't provoke as much fuss as it did 25 years ago when there were calls for it to be banned.

The book, its title calculated to provoke as much as the blood-red scarf that trails across its cover, is no less polemical.