Sentence examples for seeks to provoke from inspiring English sources

And Mr. Aronson seeks to court the audience as aggressively as "The Shape of Things" seeks to provoke it.

But if his choice of subjects is open to debate (not necessarily a bad thing in a book that presumably seeks to provoke discussion), Kershaw's treatment of the individual decisions is unquestionably superb.

Gervasi rightly suggests that Hitchcock is no mere puppet master who seeks to provoke effects in his viewers; he's converting the world as he sees it, in its practical details and obsessively ugly corners, into his art, and he's doing so precisely because those are the aspects of life that haunt his imagination.

If the difference between art and entertainment is that one form attempts to express a pressing and self-defined truth, and the other seeks to provoke, for gain, a reaction in an audience, then the Handsome Family are more artists than entertainers.

In many places in his letters he not only recognizes the outcry, he delights in it, and seeks to provoke it even more (Milne 1932 37, 12 May 35; 28 Jul 36).

But have no fear, I felt all the desire that a woman in love seeks to provoke".

I asked, seeking to provoke.

They might seek to provoke communal or religious clashes.

Some Mexicans fear that he is seeking to provoke violence.

Rather, he sought to provoke an "alchemical process".

"Attractive" is code for provocative, and these days only the foolhardy would seek to provoke.