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Provocation in sentence

108 examples of Provocation in a sentence

Without provocation, suddenly she attacked, against her Prime Minister's orders, the next-door neighbor's oil fields.
[A provocation from Danny Hillis:] [It's time to start talking about engineering our climate] What if there was a way to build a thermostat that allowed you to turn down the temperature of the earth anytime you wanted?
And sometimes, he and his cohort would chant that provocation the entire school bus ride, 45 minutes up, 45 minutes back: "Percy!
So, what started as a bit of an inside joke with myself and a willful provocation, has become a thing.
You can spot it in the provocation of a button, an arm poking at a sleeve, a balancing act at a night-time curb while negotiating the dark.
I also believe that Alan Turing understood this, and that when he devised his test back in 1950, he was doing it as a philosophical provocation.
It felt like a provocation.
What happens is, a third party's provocation forces one or the other to react, and that sets in motion a spiral, which drags the two somewhere they don't want to go.
The provocation in that case was the assassination of a second-level figure, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which then led the Austro-Hungarian emperor to issue an ultimatum to Serbia, they dragged in the various allies, within two months, all of Europe was at war.
Well, we know what we're doing and feeling at the moment of that provocation matters.
But what matters most is not the provocation, it's not the pre-anger state, it's this: it's how we interpret that provocation, it's how we make sense of it in our lives.
The provocation was that instead of growing a plant, like cotton, in a field over several months, we could use microbes to grow a similar cellulose material in a lab in a few days.
But a few works take tedium to new levels and enter the realm of provocation...."Last Year at Marienbad" comes to mind.
The film is close to the play and some of the provocation of the play is no longer provocative twelve years later.
How this show failed to win any TV awards for it's intelligence, observation, courage, acting and thought provocation is shameful, but, as watching it will show you, not in the least bit surprising.
The seemingly casual pace filled with strokes of wit and provocation grants another badge of honor in the Mike Nichol's collection.
This is plot 6f: the one about Destry, who never wears a gun, or Sean (Duke Wayne), the 'Quiet Man' who refuses to rise to provocation and fight until the obligatory scene where the gun is strapped on and the fists cocked - but instead of contenting himself with a polite come stai oggi he removes 100,000 from the suitcase and buys her a car.
But this man is shown murdering a teenage girl without provocation or reason and without emotion.
But, then, what about the Lord's command to forgive, even in the case of one's enemies, of those who despise and persecute you without a just cause or provocation?
In short, they're a dead-on, mercilessly funny spoof of every drunken pub bigot you've ever met - the boozy know-all who'll talk absolute rubbish on any given subject for at least ten minutes at the slightest provocation.
Characters weep and scream at the slightest provocation.
McTiernan fails to bring out the supernatural elements of the Nomads (who come off looking more like your standard street punks - "they don't live anywhere, they don't work anywhere, they resort to violence at the slightest provocation"), and the movie drags.
Then again it is happening into the day of the Christmas, then again Kevin is starting the scuffle after the provocation of the brother, then again he is being told off by the mother, then again he must leave home together with the family, then again is getting lost this time getting the aeroplane mixed up which was supposed to get on then again... Okay, it won't be spoiler, but we are dealing with the sheer plagiarism.
On the other hand he just walks up and belts her new fiancé without provocation, but clearly feeling justified (and the film-makers clearly agree with him, which is the sickest thing about it).
Vilks argued that his work was a provocation aimed at revealing the selective liberalism within the Swedish intellectual establishment – its multiculturalism, one could say.
When the threat of ballistic missiles from Iran became potent, it built a missile-defense architecture to deter provocation.
But Kennedy recognized something far more dangerous: Accidents, misjudgments, bluffs, provocation by hardliners, or tactical mistakes could easily throw either side into panic.
The logic of a summer provocation was abundantly clear in 1914.
This, too, would seem to be a gamble: many Israelis, however worried they might be about an Iranian nuclear bomb, have been highly critical of Netanyahu's provocation of Obama, and of many Jewish Democrats.
The Leninist “democratic centralism” to which Morsi seemed to have subscribed, if maintained, will be a standing provocation to the new generations and their allies in the old state apparatus to rise up, even at the price of civil war.
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