1) He doesn't really mean that—he's just being deliberately provocative.

2) His provocative words only fuelled the argument further.

3) The minister's provocative remarks were widely reported in the press.

4) She was sitting in a highly provocative pose.

5) His behavior was called provocative and antisocial.

6) She was accused of being deliberately provocative .

7) She slowly leaned forward in a provocative way.

8) She wore a very provocative dress.

9) She was dressed in a highly provocative way.

10) His provocative words only fueled the argument further.

11) In a deliberately provocative speech, she criticised the whole system of government.

12) This book is designed to be provocative rather than a watertight piece of economic analysis.

13) Some adolescents might be more sexually mature and provocative than others.

14) The programme will take a detailed and provocative look at the problem of homelessness.

15) Andy Warhol's provocative slogan, 'Everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes', became a sixties byword.

16) That optimism was immediately contradicted by Haider's provocative comments.

17) New York City is notching provocative successes.

18) Roman, as always, was being arrogant, deliberately provocative.

19) And that stupidly provocative remark hadn't helped.

20) It was detailed, provocative and refreshingly easy to read.

21) Locals regarded it as a provocative incursion.

22) These images are provocative, too, darting from murdered bodies to couples in bed.

23) Women in a riot of beads, bandannas and provocative bustles followed to centre nave.

24) Peggy ScottAdams's provocative ballad is hitting radio audiences like an emotional bomb.

25) Probably one of the most provocative young personalities in television today.

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27) The book's provocative statements have led to it being banned in some schools.

28) He has made a string of outspoken and sometimes provocative speeches in recent years.

29) Also excluded are the currently fashionable workshops and seminars on such provocative topics as diversity, group sensitivity, and gender politics.

30) It premiered in 1986, and is as taut now, as touching, witty, and provocative as it seemed then.

1) He doesn't really mean that—he's just being deliberately provocative.

2) His provocative words only fuelled the argument further.

3) The minister's provocative remarks were widely reported in the press.

4) He has made a string of outspoken and sometimes provocative speeches in recent years.

5) She wore a very provocative dress.

6) His provocative words only fueled the argument further.

31) A fascinating and provocative timetable spanning nearly 200 million years has emerged.

32) Over the past decade, he has made statements, often provocative, about a wide variety of issues.

33) Poetry is provocative because it goes beyond prose which is descriptive.

34) Why did he have to make such a provocative remark?

35) Sometimes, I grant you, some one offers a provocative thought.

36) A final provocative statement from a life-long prankster, a prodigal son of Harvard, it seems so fitting.

37) But I also love artists like Alfred Quir z that are satirical and provocative.

38) Water, water everywhere ... I cast out into the calmer seas beyond, whilst they continue their provocative tramp around us.

39) At a time when change was almost synonymous with evil, or at least decline, this was indeed provocative.

40) But in the context of the jail, republicans considered them symbolic and provocative and, therefore, they could create trouble.

41) However, his deeply felt and meticulously researched rhetoric conveyed in all his books is hard hitting, provocative and sagacious.

42) These were a survival from his army days and, therefore, some way from being sexually provocative.

43) Some of the disturbances were triggered by the provocative actions of local Whigs and Dissenters.

44) These supposedly extreme propositions are much better understood as provocative statements of a political position than as semantic claims.

45) Nor does he worry about offending people with his provocative images.

46) A few of its witticisms are unnecessarily provocative and should be censored.

47) Photomontage was an immensely suitable medium for the provocative imagery of Dada.

48) Then she got out and strolled up to the gate with her most provocative walk.

49) His belt buckle was digging into the soft skin of her stomach and she moved agitatedly, unconsciously provocative.

50) The plan is provocative, but it is not reaping fulfilling results this week.

51) Our novel observations are provocative and carry enormous public health implications.

52) Recently a self-styled young adults' lobby called Third Millennium hit on a provocative way to explain the impending Medicare crisis.

53) Every press release should include a quotable, provocative statement from an officer or committee member of the organization involved.

54) Elias, has been seriously threatened, because of its provocative color.

55) Blier also makes good use of some provocative Barry White songs, and the leads are excellent.

56) The magazine is full of pictures of partially dressed women in provocative poses.

57) Here, like to many other ancient sites mentioned above, there is a provocative stillness.

58) Lind has written a polemic, provocative and engaging and infuriating to read, and useful when it blows up old myths.

59) One of the most provocative findings in recent years has been the degree of parallel organization hidden within individual anatomical regions.

60) For similar reasons there was a ban on republicans wearing shamrocks as loyalists considered them provocative.

61) There is a lot of provocative images and statements that are made that we want people to challenge.

62) Many, of course, are carefully staged, clearly presented, and very provocative.

63) Williams again wore the provocative black and blue outfit that drew international attention when unveiled in the opening round.

64) From the standpoint of Louis's existing sons, it was a provocative act.

65) I care nothing for his provocative remark.

66) Once again the measure proved more provocative than effective.

67) Citicorp offers a second provocative illustration.

68) She looked very provocative in her bikini.

69) Her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative.

70) Voyeurism and exhibitionism intertwine in these purposefully provocative scenes.

71) This is an extraordinary and provocative observational fact.

72) He is also cheekily provocative.

73) Dr Zyphur's garb was, however, no provocative fashion statement.

74) One that acts as a provocative stimulus; a goad.

75) She said nothing particularly provocative.

76) Your question was not merely provocative.

77) During the diagnostic workup, all patients had undergone provocative discography that included the assessment of the discs adjacent to the intended fusion levels.

78) Ms. Cordova, who had traded messages with Mr. Weiner, a New York Democrat, about their shared concern over his conservative critics, said she had never sent him anything provocative.

79) Nine layer cake describe a personality provocative, tough nine layer cake plumber, says fertilizer factory shiva.

80) It drew a line; it created an elect; it was sophisticated and Continental; it dealt with provocative subjects, with torture, sadism, hermaphroditism––with sex and power.

81) Set as a kind of a German working class drinking song, the tune is supported by percussion from Turkish sources along with the provocative sounds of scimitars, swords clashing with each other.

82) Betty is not just a great beauty, she also possesses provocative sexuality -- an attribute that undermines the purity and passivity of the original character.

83) He printed lies, forged documents, falsified stories of violence, wrote provocative editorials, and published sensational cartoons and photographs to support his opinions.

84) Philip Pullman addresses the apparent separateness of his subject's divinity and humanity in a provocative way.

85) A simplistic comment, perhaps,(http:///provocative.html) but this is a commentator who specializes in being provocative.

86) Methods: Healthy, athletic subjects who are suspected of having exercise-induced bronchospasm were recruited, and FEV1 values were determined following provocative airway challenges with methacholine.

87) They are being provocative and controversial just to spite us.

88) Obviously, that rather challenging and provocative notion is something that lends itself readily to the sort of no-nonsense tone that I'm talking about.

89) So, what is Wang Tong attempting, stirring people up through this provocative performance, through the reenactment of historical scenes?

90) Flanked by similarly dressed backup dancers, Jackson took to the stage of the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards in a black suit, skinny black tie and – ever provocative – white arm band.

91) Given China's massive military build-up, its lack of military transparency, and its often provocative external behavior, Beijing simply cannot be counted on to act responsibly as a global power.

92) In perhaps his most provocative remarks, Jacques praises China's communist leaders for their "remarkable perspicacity ... never allowing themselves to be distracted by short-term considerations".

93) It is however essential that I play out the string and not be provocative.

94) It also banned "morally provocative hosts and hostesses" and demanded that participants undergo stricter screening procedures and "be cautious before mouthing venturous remarks.

95) Rather, they work up to suicide through a series of provocative experiences, such as accidents, injuries, self-injury, eating disorders, and exposure to pain and suffering.

96) "Opium" is a provocative, sensual, and voluptuous fragrance which makes all your senses vibrate.

97) SEEING Red in China, a blog by an American teacher there, makes a provocative argument.

98) A number of rock stars from the 1950s and 1960s could have been mentioned as sex symbols, but none are quite as provocative as Mick Jagger.

99) Wow! she's got nerve wear that high - leg bathing suit. it's very provocative.

100) The pretty model looks very provocative in a transparent miniskirt.

101) Quartet form, with large bright red, full of provocative and sexy fragrance.

102) The singular storyline puts a twist on a hackneyed subject, providing fresh and provocative entertainment.

103) His provocative speech met with no response from the opposing party.

104) At first only one newspaper, Hankyoreh, regarded as a provocative gadfly, dared print them.

105) The "extremely provocative"findings "are consistent with what I have learned independently", says Jeffrey S. Kargel, a glaciologist at the University ofArizona, United States.

106) This is one of the themes of " Red Families v. Blue Families, " a provocative new book by two law professors, Naomi Cahn and June Carbone.

107) A 2006 study of youth athletes in Quebec City turned up the provocative finding that young, high-level swimmers wheezed and coughed far more often than young, indoor soccer players.

108) The provocative idea was posited by Vahe Gurzadyan of Yerevan Physics Institute in Armenia and celebrated theoretical physicist Roger Penrose of the University of Oxford, UK.

109) "It's very provocative, " says Lisa Monteggia, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in Dallas. "It goes back to two schools of thought: Lamarck versus Darwin."

110) YOUTH(THROUGH TRANSLATOR): As long as the person who is in charge of national security behaves like a juvenile delinquent and carries on using provocative language, the trouble won't stop.

111) Leda and the Swan, a provocative nude, was probably destroyed by a shocked religious member of the French royal family.

112) Harry claims to be an anarchist but he's really only striking an attitude to be provocative.

113) Study Design. A cohort study of clinical outcomes of lumbar fusion patients with preoperative assessment of adjacent levels by provocative discography.

114) The singular storyline puts a twist on hackneyed subject, providing fresh and provocative entertainment.

115) And a provocative exhibition tries to unpick the myth about the world's most famous apeman.

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116) Unless you are writing something very post-modernist – self-conscious, self-reflexive and "provocative" – be alert for possibilities of using plain familiar words in place of polysyllabic "big" words.

117) Women were thought to be more provocative of sinful deliberation if gussied up in snap, bows and frills.

118) Since its last short-range missile tests in early July, North Korea has refrained from taking any provocative actions, setting the stage for a possible return to six-nation talks.

119) This stunning and provocative period tale is adapted from the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.

120) The North has claimed it has a nuclear arsenal and threatened war if the South carried out a military drill that Pyongyang deemed to be provocative.

121) Brain scans capture the viewer's reaction to these provocative images and represent it as glowing technicolor splotches of color that represent activation in drug-sensitized brain regions.

122) In an unsportsmanlike and provocative move, they have chosen to broadcast on the same frequency that we have been using for the past five years.

123) Still, this is a small quibble about a deeply intelligent, provocative book.

124) She normally has very provocative girls with pouting lips and they're holding either like a soft bunny rabbit or a fox and it's very sweet and almost pornographic or sensual at the same time.

125) He sticked provocative poster on board when nobody was looking.

126) Thus begins Pierre Bayard's witty and provocative meditation on the nature scale and necessity of non - reading.

127) The results sometimes restate the obvious,[Sentence dictionary] but just as often they are new and provocative.

128) Trolling, defined as the act of posting inflammatory, derogatory or provocative messages in public forums, is a problem as old as the Internet itself, although its roots go much farther back.

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130) The deployment of a high-sounding, honeyed, provocative methods to destroy humans' multifaceted nature involves contemporary culture's butchery.

131) It is too soon to tell if Yamasaki will sustain his career shift from cinematographer to director, but Torso certainly serves as a suitably provocative calling card.

132) Compared with Playboy Playmates, as the Hefner centerfold models were known, Penthouse Pets were arrayed in more provocative poses.

133) Word quickly spread that one of the not-to-miss highlights was "Attitude, " Osage Gallery's solo show by Jiang Zhi, which features three brand-new works by the often provocative artist.