Sentence examples for sufficiently provocative from inspiring English sources

That brutal aesthetic can be a straitjacket: plays would be rejected if they weren't sufficiently provocative or out of control.

"In the 10 years hence, Gujarat has been unaffected by any riots of any nature despite the occurrence of events historically considered sufficiently provocative," he writes.

His stark truth that "history is class struggle" is deemed sufficiently provocative to make us stare down into the abyss of a precarious future with no steady income and zero social security.

"Playboy" has also taken some pre-emptive hits for being a jiggle show (despite a fig leaf of proto-feminism), and it was sufficiently provocative to be dropped in advance by an NBC station in Utah.

Mr. DiBella, who declined to comment further on the deal, has a reputation in the fight world for aggressiveness, and his early jibes were sufficiently provocative that Richard Schaefer, the chief executive of Golden Boy, felt compelled to respond: "I would say to the other promoters, 'Stop crying.

In the '90s, that tongue-in-cheek comment was sufficiently provocative that it has stayed with me for two decades.

'Let's Dance', with its little narrative surrounding the young Aborigine couple, targeted 'youth', and 'China Girl', with its bare-bummed (and later partially censored) beach lovemaking scene (a homage to the film From Here to Eternity), was sufficiently sexually provocative to guarantee heavy rotation on MTV.

Liotta also suggests waiting to get results that are sufficiently compelling and provocative, and are likely to get the attention of the study section.

The provocation proved provocative.

The philosophy of Biology Direct is not to publish every scientifically sound paper, as PLOS One does, but rather to publish a relatively small collection of papers, some of which report major discoveries but all are sufficiently interesting and perhaps even provocative to stir productive discussion.

There were also statements attributed to senior Israelis and Americans suggesting that the window for military action could close within a year, because by then Iran might already have developed a bomb, or improved its air defences sufficiently to deter any attack.Yet both the Israeli and American governments distanced themselves from these provocative statements.