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Films are made for a variety of different reasons but the best that cinema has to offer will invariably provoke an emotional response; and Gregory Wilson's film version of Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door is one of the best examples of a film to do that; and the emotional response that the film provoked in me was anger.

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We are there to inspire, to provoke, to mobilize, to bring hope to our people.

All right, what we're just feeling there is plus-one emotional resilience, which means you have the ability to provoke powerful, positive emotions like curiosity or love, which we feel looking at baby animals, when you need them most.

Afraid of the conflict that that would provoke, afraid to get embroiled in arguments that they did not know how to manage, and felt that they were bound to lose.

Our fears provoke in us a very similar form of suspense.

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