Provoke
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241 examples of Provoke in a sentence
I also love the movies, such as this one, which
provoke
so many debates, theories, possible endings and hidden subtext.
The main characters don't
provoke
much feeling as well.
This low-budget really surprised me (it being a part of the After Dark '8 films to die for' didn't really
provoke
confidence as most of those films I've seen previous to this one were awful) However this film kept my interests throughout & a testament that supremely low-budget films can be good if the film maker has an eye on the ball, plans it all out ahead of time and has a real passion for cinema.
Some of the material was clearly put there merely to be controversial, to tick off the censors and/or otherwise provoke, and while there are points where you can definitely tell that PhD's wrote this, there certainly are also ones where it doesn't feel like that at all.
In Moll's world we let people into our house to yell at us, throw drinks at each other,
provoke
us, and ultimately commit suicide in our spare room.
With hammy acting and posturing substituting for emotional expression, what little plot development there is, gets padded by longeurs which, whilst evidently intended to convey some kind of "significance", merely
provoke
a yawn and a glance at the clock.
The purpose of "Funny Games" is to
provoke
and disturb the audience.
If you did that you would
provoke
a ferocious reaction that could just wash you away in one wink of an eye.
The dialogue, given in moments of calm, sucks you in because of its surrealism, its ability to
provoke
thought, its reflection of your own experience, and then hits you with some of the most laugh out loud, wet your pants, surreal comedy moments that you just don't expect and have ever seen.
American romantic comedies seem built according to specifications designed only to
provoke
that slightly nervous, overly sweet feeling in the majority of female audience members.
That in itself seems to
provoke
interest for some, but the pace is so slow that you get tired of waiting for things to gel and something significant to occur.
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.
Moreover, the guy is a bit creepy, and soon it appears his aim is not just to live rent free but also to
provoke
his landlords into legally punishable actions against him, and maybe even to con his way to gaining possession of their entire house.
They must have realize however, that having John Cleese as the scientist was bound to
provoke
some giggles.
Fortunately, the film didn't prove realistic enough to
provoke
anything more than a startled gasp or two from me.
but what the snow and tiger lacks, is it can't
provoke
the deep emotions of audiences like life is beautiful.most of the movie is based on the Benigni's improvising one liners and it made the movie more like a one man show that in some moments becomes boring,and Jean Reno as an Arab poet is not as interesting as his roles as gangsters and so.
The characters seem to insult and shout just only to
provoke.
The "Coming of Age" theme of "Deadgirl" appears to be secondary to directors' Sarmiento and Harel intent to
provoke
people by depicting misogynistic sleaze and violence.
There can no longer be any doubt that investor panic can
provoke
economic meltdown, as it did in Asia and Russia last year, still threatens to do in Brazil and across Latin America, and may yet stage an encore in Asia over worries about a devaluation in China and the spiral of competitive devaluations that could follow.
One of the campaign’s objectives is to persuade, provoke, and inspire 100 million young people around the world to raise their voices against violence inflicted on children.
We aim to tug at the conscience of people everywhere, to
provoke
others into action.
Although Ukraine, too, applied for NATO membership in 2008, it did not
provoke
Russian intervention.
Knowing that such a move would
provoke
an enormous backlash domestically, we looked for a formula for continuing official contacts and arms sales with Taiwan even after we had de-recognized them and terminated the mutual security treaty ratified during the Eisenhower years.
The collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 drove up risk premia and triggered panic in financial markets, weakening assets in the United States and elsewhere, and threatening to
provoke
a credit crunch.
Terrorists hope to create a climate of fear and insecurity that will
provoke
liberal democracies to harm themselves by undercutting their quality in terms of their own values.
No statement could be better crafted to
provoke
a retreat from the greenback.
The US and Iran could go to war not over nuclear issues but because of reckless behavior by the Revolutionary Guards (as occurred recently in the Strait of Hormuz), with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad possibly seeking to
provoke
a crisis in order to distract domestic attention from his economic failures.
Given the complexity of today’s strategic nuclear weapons and the systems designed to neutralize them, one cannot rule out the possibility that some actor on either side, or a third party, could
provoke
escalation.
Musharraf, concerned at all costs to avoid any military action that might
provoke
a tribal rebellion against his forces, tried to buy himself more political space by cutting deals with insurgent leaders in the FATA, signing peace agreements with the very chiefs his army should have been pursuing.
As in Iraq, the conflict could
provoke
large-scale bloodletting.
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