His remarks provoked contempt and anger.
He uses the world as a soundstage for braggadocio unmoored from reason – provoking a contempt he is incapable of perceiving.
Who hasn't had a friend or drunken party guest make the declaration "I'm gonna make a movie!" It happens a lot and so pronouncements like that rightfully provoke contempt and cynicism.
Elsewhere institutions provoke fear, contempt or frustration.
It's far more inspiring than the one which provoked Orson Welles' contempt.
It was this licentious playfulness that provoked the contempt of the rising stars of the Modern movement – modernism – which had been rooted in the far more serious researches of the Bauhaus and, most notably, Le Corbusier.
Above all, many doubt whether any party leader can really inspire voters at a time when politics itself provokes widespread contempt, and did so even before the crass abuse by parliamentarians of their expenses was unveiled earlier this year.But if the Conservatives cannot electrify voters, they can at least address their most pressing concerns, and these centre on the fiscal crisis.
Assimilation policies in secularised Europe failed to secure the rights of Jews, or to save them from discrimination and contempt, provoking a desperate Joseph Roth to remark that he preferred Europe's old "fear of God" more than its "so-called modern humanism".
Thus, conscience can be viewed as an outcome of those biological drives that prompt humans to avoid provoking fear or contempt in others; being experienced as guilt and shame in differing ways from society to society and person to person.
In the Arab world, suddenly she's everywhere, a dark-haired, golden-eyed looker sashaying onto talk shows in stiletto heels, provoking Hezbollah with her contempt for Shariah law, penning newspaper columns and books about Arab gender politics, publishing a racy magazine and flashing a winning smile as a judge on Lebanon's "Celebrity Duets".
