Sentence examples for was a provocative from inspiring English sources

A decade ago, he published "The Bible as It Was," a provocative and much-lauded study of early biblical interpretation.

It was a provocative tempting of fate.

Mandelbrot was a provocative mathematician, a subversive geometer.

The end of lying was a provocative idea.

It was a provocative change, but it won't please everyone.

It was a provocative gesture in Russia, which recently passed a law prohibiting homosexual "propaganda".

It was a provocative dynamic, but by midseason all nuance dropped out.

There was a provocative string of posts on Twitter by a faux Shaquille O'Neal.

The claim was more or less debunked, but it was a provocative moment.

I knew it was a provocative term, but it also reflected my antagonistic relationship with these games.

Critics said it was a provocative attempt to chip away at the russophone Latvians' slice of the public pie.