Sentence examples for purposely provocative from inspiring English sources
Mr. Hirst's work is purposely provocative and disturbing.
Artists usually court controversy when their work is, or seems to be, stridently polemic, or purposely provocative.
"There are going to be some filibusters," said Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, who added that he felt that the administration was being purposely provocative in its choices to run agencies like A.T.F., which has been at the center of the long-running gun-control debate.
Purposely provocative, Mr. Hirst, 48, was long controversial in his own country, known for startling works that have included rotting cows positioned to simulate copulation; sharks and sheep preserved in formaldehyde; maggots attacking a cow's head; and medicine cabinets full of hundreds of different kinds of drugs.
Purposely provocative and often disturbing, the artist is perhaps best known for "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living," a shark submerged in a tank of formaldehyde that is owned by the hedge-fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen and is on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The method is deliberately provocative.
Mr. DeStefano is purposely being provocative, trying to jolt people out of a Hollywood cartoon view of a heaven filled with clouds, harps and halos.
Eminem was trolling before the word became codified, consciously provocative, purposely irresponsible, and occasionally profoundly unfunny.
Summers defended his statements saying that he was purposely aiming to be provocative to address a question that reflected an indisputable reality: Women are underrepresented in science and math.
The provocation proved provocative.
Purposely rough around the edges, "X2" poses provocative questions about cultural stereotypes.
