Sentence examples for with a provocative statement from inspiring English sources

Rand had developed a signature style: he opened with a provocative statement to jar the casual reader, and then calmly laid out his argument.

He opens the book with a provocative statement, "When our hearts are small…..we can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change.

The video begins with a provocative statement.

Arsenal reacted on Wednesday night by saying that they were "confident" that Van Persie would see out a contract which does not expire until next summer but, privately, are furious that their star player should go public with such a provocative statement.

The comedian David Cross, a guest, made a provocative statement in pants festooned with whales (irony or back from Nantucket?).

That's a provocative statement?

It was, as Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre note, a provocative statement.

The execution of Iran's Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr on 2 January was a provocative statement of intent.

He'd throw out a provocative statement, and then reverse one hundred eighty degrees and throw out another one.

Now that's a provocative statement – that seems to suggest that without a genuine education, we are somehow asleep.

Make a provocative statement or ask challenging questions.