Sentence examples for provoking of from inspiring English sources

And — most provoking of all — they also didn't know whom they were talking to.

In fact, for all its cunning confounding of expectations and provoking of emotions, it's not at all clear what, if anything, the film is saying.

The applications of M2M communications in e-healthcare include, e.g., remote monitoring of patients, provoking of alarms for handling serious conditions, and remote control of certain medical parameters.

(One of them yesterday said to me, "I hate you", and it made me afraid for a second that her words weren't the senseless provoking of a nine year old but I suddenly pictured  her as a twenty-nine year old saying it).

Chris Priestman of Kill Screen found the game provoking of "gut reactions" and noted a sexual undercurrent throughout it.

BioShock and its sequels are great, rollicking of action and occasionally thought provoking of prose; but the Ayn Rand roots of the first game's philosophy, its Biblical overtones and retro-futurist science makes for a muddled collision of plot-forming components, too much for many a screenwriter to get their head around.

Galleries generally prefer not to discuss attacks on artworks for fear of provoking more of them.

Harrison was pathetic, in the sense of provoking feelings of pity.

Some of the music made in this spirit, from Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti to the output of labels such as Ghost Box and Not Not Fun, is among the most enjoyable and thought-provoking of our time.

But what the featured artists demonstrated, in a dance event that promises to be one of the most exciting and thought-provoking of the year, was that flamenco is also an art of inflection.

With its theme of former gang members coming to terms with the ramifications of their decisions as teenagers, this is the most mature and thought-provoking of Noel Clarke's urban drama series.