Sentence examples for was very provocative from inspiring English sources

I came in on the attack because the title of the event was very provocative.

That image was very provocative in South Africa, as it graphically depicted the master-servant relationship engendered by apartheid.

"The way we went about it was very provocative and made people take notice, and we won over a lot of people to our way of thinking".

John Schwarz of the California Institute of Technology, one of the fathers of string theory, said the paper was "very provocative".

The clip was "very provocative and spread like wildfire," but was not authentic, having been shot several years ago on the border with Afghanistan, Kaushal Raj Sharma, a top official from Muzaffarnagar, said in an interview.

For years, she was rigorously opposed to the idea of playing live: "It was very provocative for Olaf and me, when everybody was saying, you have to play live or else you're not a band, blah blah blah.

He is very provocative, and like all true provocateurs he doesn't fully understand his own provocation.

"That's very provocative," Mr. Roshan said.

"It's very provocative," she agrees.

People say my magazine is very provocative or transgressive.

"But the situation in the Palestinian territories is very provocative".