Sentence examples for taste for controversy from inspiring English sources

It is difficult to sustain a reputation as a renegade in such a turbulent era, but M.I.A.'s taste for controversy has not wavered.

"He is truly of a piece," Ms. Skocpol says, noting that Mr. Moynihan's taste for controversy has influenced both his political and his academic careers.

This taste for controversy and a willingness to raise the hackles of the pompous and complacent went hand-in-hand with a more academic trait in her personality which found expression in her keen interest in local history and genealogy.

He is more than matched, for judgment, by a young Cambridge don, Robert Macfarlane; a novelist with a taste for controversy, Tibor Fischer; and the literary editor of the Economist, Fiammetta Rocco.

A gifted orator with a taste for controversy, Le Pen had for years been an irritating thorn in the side of his daughter, who took over the party from him in 2011 and had tried to steer it away from the overt racism and anti-semitism of its past.

With an obsession for technical perfection and a taste for controversy, Guy Bourdin was one of the most experimental and influential fashion photographers of the 20th century, and quite possibly the least understood.

Refreshingly, the commissioner appears not to care all that much.Indeed, he has a certain taste for intellectual controversy.

By Christina Binkley February 21, 2017 Before Donald Trump's Presidency, fashion designers' taste for courting controversy was normally limited to the aesthetic realm.

With a few exceptions, fashion designers' taste for courting controversy is limited to the aesthetic realm: an exposed breast, say, or perhaps a stand against using fur.

Uproar Over a Helmsley Crypt Even in matters of death, Leona Helmsley's taste for the bold statement seems to court controversy.

However, there is no consensus concerning how to understand reduction as a metaphysical relation (for a taste of the controversy, see McPherson 2015, Sec. 3, and the entry on scientific reduction and the discussion of reduction in the entry on David Lewis).