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Provocative in sentence

200 examples of Provocative in a sentence

I hope that some of these ideas were at least provocative enough for managers and bosses and business owners and organizers and people who are in charge of other people, to think about laying off a little bit, and giving people more time to get work done.
So my provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious scientific theory of cities.
I create provocative theater and film to touch, humanize and move disagreeing parties to the conversation table to bridge misunderstandings.
Some brands are aspirational, and certainly the packaging is incredibly provocative.
The paper apologized, but said it never runs photos of women; they might be sexually provocative.
What is definitely uncontroversial is that, as I've said, we've got to stop being reactive, and more proactive, and I just want to leave you with one idea, which is that it's a provocative question for you to think about, and the answer will require sympathy with the devil.
That's a provocative idea.
So despite the provocative title, this presentation is really about safety, and about some simple things that we can do to raise our kids to be creative, confident and in control of the environment around them.
My first visit to Pixar was in 2005, when they were working on "Ratatouille," that provocative movie about a rat becoming a master chef.
So it's really provocative to wonder what sort of new protein drugs you could develop if you could build proteins from more diverse things.
This is a provocative question.
In a sense, if I am allowed to be provocative, China today is closer to Britain in the 19th century.
Use intriguing, provocative questions to identify why something doesn't make sense and needs explaining.
They came to an incredible, provocative conclusion.
In fact, it's so remarkable that provocative statements like this one: "Cancer is having a penicillin moment," people are saying, with these new immune therapy drugs.
In our campaign to knock Columbus off his pedestal, we engaged in a visually provocative form of activism.
So I can ask a very provocative question: Is it possible that at some point in the future, a significant fraction of the human workforce is going to be made redundant in the way that horses were?
So some of the things I do with people around the world who take part is make small bits of provocative street art which are hung off eye level, very small, and they're provocative messages.
Yeah, I guess those hoodies that Uber engineers wear in Silicon Valley are just so provocative.
And I find that very interesting and very provocative, because what you've been hearing in the last couple of days is the sense of going in different directions: directions that are specific and unique to problems.
Yet it is so provocative.
Her provocative poem Foolish Men infamously criticized sexist double standards, decrying how men corrupt women while blaming them for immorality.
So, if you look at this ad for beer, all those people are in sort of provocative positions.
And that wasn't meant to be provocative; it was just for a few research students.
This wasn't meant to be provocative or important, but we put together these Fab Labs.
They decide what is too offensive or too provocative for you to see.
I admit, I was taken in by the provocative stills of Charlotte Lewis from this film, as well as a comment on the IMDb message board devoted to her, calling this picture a "great underrated film".
Well, how to make a movie as provocative as possible?
The movie wants to be edgy, witty, provocative, outlandish, biting all of this, seemingly in a Quentin Tarantino/Rob Zombie style.
It tries to be provocative, yet deep, with its full frontal homosexual sex scenes - it doesn't succeed!
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