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It provoked tears as well as incisive questions about unarmed peace-keeping forces and the double-dealing of a Western society that picks its moral fights with commodities in mind.
So we decided to see if flies could be provoked into showing the kind of behavior that you see by the proverbial wasp at the picnic table, you know, the one that keeps coming back to your hamburger the more vigorously you try to swat it away, and it seems to keep getting irritated.
Coming the other day from Atlanta, here, two days ago, I was flying over deserts that we made, we provoked with our own hands.
So I provoked a little curiosity.
My father's university teaching of Darwin had already provoked a classroom visit from the head of the so-called Islamic Salvation Front, who denounced Dad as an advocate of biologism before Dad had ejected the man, and now whoever was outside would neither identify himself nor go away.
This is essential to overcome our speechlessness and the separation provoked by rival political forces.
It provoked the missile gap.
But Sputnik provoked wonderful changes as well.
The problem is global warming, provoked by the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases caused by human activity.
But otherwise, improvisation is welcome and is provoked.
He refused to be provoked by petty grievances.
Now, for most of us, and I bet most of you, it feels as simple as this: I get mad when I'm provoked.
You can't and you shouldn't swing a club every time you're provoked.
The bees can be dangerous if provoked, but right now they’re paralyzed by the morning cold.
Because it has provoked, and does provoke, a visceral anxiety in the bellies of many a Western soul, especially when viewed through the monochromatic lens of turbulence and turmoil.
The truth is that we know that the images themselves don't change the world, but we're also aware that, since the beginning of photography, images have provoked reactions in people, and those reactions have caused change to happen.
The music which sounded memorably whilst the credits also provoked me in the positive sense.
A feminist tract in which if you the viewer believe that: i) wild animals are seldom tamed by singing but instead attack, kill and eat (the line that grizzlies never attack unless provoked was a hoot - unless "provoked" means that it sees flesh); ii) homosexuality is both immoral per se -- and its acceptance almost always associated throughout history with signs of a society's dissolution and decay iii) few women are bisexual (in this one, virtually every woman is presented as having no preference for men or women) iv) divorce is far worse than infidelity v) land is there for human beings to use, develop and enjoy vi) it is as incumbent upon a mother of an adult son to keep in touch as it is upon the son vii) a mother raising her son alone is an unfortunate and real tragedy for the child viii) the idolization of a parent for worthwhile ideals is a good and healthy thing ix) adults continue to bear a responsibility for their sexual behavior, no matter their age, and the duty to engage in this most intimate and giving of acts only within the most intimate and openly sacrificial of relationships: marriage -- believe me, you are NOT going to like this film!
It provoked me into researching to find out if this is a truth based movie, but to my disappointment, it is a novel based film, seemingly fiction.
It provoked a huge outpouring of patriotic fervor in the UK.
I loved that this movie provoked all of these questions in me, while it entertained, stimulated, and kept me guessing to the end!
Whatever happens to me, this film will be with me for a long time, and I will be telling everyone I know to watch it, not to be entertained, but to be provoked, because sometimes we all need to be provoked.
It entertained, provoked thought, and showed lives that would not be seen otherwise, right in our own back yard.
I don't know about you, but this parallel being drawn provoked in me a maelstrom of emotion and excitement over Thomas C. Dunn's film and made the allocation of my time toward it virtually impossible to refuse.
I just want to add it because all the comments were so positive I felt like I just had to let people know that not everyone is so thrilled, let alone intellectually provoked by this attempt at creating a captivating philosophical cinematic enigma.
I gave this more than a 1 because I did think there were some moral lessons in this story and it provoked some thought and comment from my wife and I.
Where "My Girl" provoked a genuine feelings of sadness and some genuinely funny moments, like so many sequels "My Girl 2" tries to recreate these emotions generated by the audience, and fails miserably.
Well, the only thoughts that were provoked from me were of the time wasted watching the movie.
In the 3rd series, a large number of episodes were wasted not on books, but on short stories in his compilations Stories to Give You Goosebumps, which contained 10 boring stories (the one I tried and failed to read was the one never used to base TV scenes off of, but I'm sure the others were no better) which often provoked no fear even on the page - imagine how a screen adaption even weaker than their book basis would've been!
I suppose that's how you get a great crap cast though...After the sex, Brinke goes to her job at the radio station and is provoked into telling how all of mankind will be dead in so many hours.
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