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Provocative in sentence

200 examples of Provocative in a sentence

They are dropped in the city center with provocative marks painted on their faces, simultaneously with the outbreak of a violent gang war.
Respiro seems made with an all too contrived and self-aware intent to be artistic, symbolic, spiritual, provocative, metaphorical... mythical, even.
nobody dares explaining) and turns, turns, turns a-r-oun-d like a ballerina, looking at the stars...and...ignoring the fact that GRANNY'S BEHIND HER, READY TO STRIKE !!! But, anyway, the music wasn't so bad, the haircuts were okay and the ending terribly provocative... Mmmmm... wish I had the German version.
Paul Muni and Bette Davis overact monstrously while lacklustre studio hack Archie Mayo seems distracted and oblivious in this racially provocative film that derives its "bittersweet ending" by condoning segregationist attitudes.
All the camera did was focus on the women and the women were always in provocative poses for the camera and they were always scantily dressed(which I loved).
The film is close to the play and some of the provocation of the play is no longer provocative twelve years later.
Violent, provocative and humorous at the same time with a truly wonderful ending.
What, I thought after the shadow-curtain closed on this provocative piece--is the foundation of a thing like this?
The flick is just a beginning, a provocative start leading to a larger discussion but it gets to work in my opinion, giving the right thrills and causing the audience to reason and to ask itself questions.
Instead, it's a very pleasant, charming and even often thoughtful time capsule of the social and political upheavals of the groovy early 70's (the subplot involving Lynn and the revolutionaries is especially potent and provocative).
It's a disturbing and provocative question suspensefully outlined in the trailer and TV spots.
It's also important and provocative.
However, this little foreign minimalistic arty dramady is so full of empty filler and so devoid of story or anything engaging or provocative that it will likely appeal to only the most avid devotees of cinema and mainstream audiences should look elsewhere.
We did get a little glimpse into the coach's motivation (a very provocative dialog in my opinion, not to be soon forgotten) so in my opinion, this was a lovely tribute to one human being who broke out of his "comfort zone" to reach out to another human being, and in the mean time, touched the lives hundreds more.
If, like me, you long for the rare true science fiction film involving characters with depth and provocative thought about where science will take us, then you need to see eXistenZ.
It's simultaneously provocative and fun.
He found his perfect leading lady for these provocative pieces in Gloria Swanson.
The questions, superficially asked, are nakedly provocative when directed to the here and now.
Walking in I was expecting something controversial, provocative, unnecessarily overdone, etc..
It was not offensive but everything was provocative and disgusting.
This concept if done right could easily turn out to be a really provocative film.
These filmmakers don't ask a single, provocative question, nor do they engage in independent or visionary research of their subject, instead delivering a tedious montage of politely clean and vastly empty comments about an enigmatic and brilliant rock legend, who doesn't deserve to be remembered by this History Channel biography your grandparents can doze off to on a Sunday night.
The strange thing about Jill The Ripper (or Jill Rips...or Tied Up) is that I honestly think they seriously thought they were making a provocative and serious thriller?
That was so provocative, and I thought, "Here we go!
"An Unexpected Love" - ooh, how provocative!! "This Much I know" would have been better.
I can recall no film that has tried so hard to be so unrelentingly outrageous, provocative and important, yet failed so consistently across the board.
Writer/director Joe Sarno concocts a sharp, engrossing and perceptive examination of suburban angst and the limitations of the whole wild'n'easy 70's sexual revolution; Sarno turns traditional middle class mores on their heads and further spices things up with a bold and provocative mother/daughter incest subplot.
Fascinating Hitchcockian thriller, very original and provocative.
It's important to remember that 'Castle in the Sky' was made two years before the revolutionary 'Akira', and while it's not provocative and controversial like the aforementioned masterpiece, the lead characters are all mainly basic manga hero / heroine / villain type characters, and the story is quite predictable and obvious (at least in today's standards), Miyazaki's designs and animation work are of standards never seen before.
Soprano is the most provocative, intricate, and fascinating protagonist ever created to this point in history.
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