Bell makes provocative points about the way in which governments now fight wars with one eye on how the action will play in front of the cameras. |
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She tries to be sexually aggressive, sporty and intellectually provocative. |
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Whenever we see her, she is wearing stylish, provocative clothes, from bustiers to shorts, to crucifixes and big, exotic earrings. |
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To be deliberately provocative, I asked him to call this period the Toronto new wave. |
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Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Hedy Lamarr were the provocative, sensual kind. |
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The provocative swimwear became a symbol of a Coast offering sun, surf, warmth and excitement. |
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Her analysis captures the problematic nature of the self in late modernity and presents it in stark and provocative relief. |
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During that time they managed to be thoughtful, provocative and, heavens above, interesting. |
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Change the Climate's web page reveals nothing unique or provocative except extraordinarily distressing obtuseness. |
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Also, I'm sure that the Australian brothers won't be complete ocker stereotypes, judging by the provocative, thoughtful title. |
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For the canonic defense to work, everything substantively provocative in the offending art work has to be played down or simply denied. |
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The power of his book lies not in prescription, but rather in his acute, erudite and provocative historical analysis. |
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The conference was stimulating, even provocative, and served to generate a debate that continued long after the conference had ended. |
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I thought once that you wrote the column tongue in cheek, as provocative as possible, an Aussie stirrer. |
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In this provocative study, Newhauser fills a lacuna in historical scholarship even as he provides insight for the nonhistorian. |
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A vehicle in orbit is less provocative than one flying through territorial airspace. |
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We value good writing, as we value controversial and provocative ideas, for their own sake. |
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The Foreign Office held that garrisoning the islands would be too provocative. |
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His findings, though cautious and conservative, are nevertheless provocative. |
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Those caveats aside, the study gives a provocative look at how one of the world's most rapidly developing regions may look in 20 years' time. |
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Videos occasionally can be as provocative and cinematic as the most amazing work of celluloid. |
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We don't know whether it is, but it is a highly controversial and provocative book. |
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Comparing today's outstanding performers with those of yesteryear is always a provocative exercise. |
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While they may be provocative, they're quite bereft of the histrionics and hyperbole we've become used to in contemporary art. |
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But a truly suffusive atmosphere to make all these elements coalesce into something provocative is absent from the proceedings. |
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Depending upon its position in the horoscope, Mercury is lies or truth, open or secretive, provocative or non-confrontational. |
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The provocative account he brazenly swanked the day after made younger Maurice stir. |
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The play deals with the hot potatoes of race, madness and power and dazzles with a story as funny as it is provocative. |
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American Beauty swept the board, a triumph of thoughtful, provocative cinema over Hollywood's usual predictable bilge. |
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The manuscript had been circulated among various publishers, most of whom shied away from this provocative treatment of a sensitive subject. |
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In fact, cultures that frown upon eye contact as sexually provocative may have a point. |
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All along the march the police were being provocative while my sister and I held up our hands in a peace sign. |
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Having to resort to a cruel and unusual punishment adds a moral relativity that is profoundly provocative. |
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But a play that seemed mildly provocative on a first viewing now looks as coldly manipulative as its heroine. |
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On a wide range of issues he has penned important and provocative academic articles. |
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While the progressive implications of some of the films seem tangential, the analysis is generally incisive and occasionally provocative. |
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How could I make a provocative image that was about more than just the physicality of the figure? |
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All in all, though, this CD contains provocative and often sublime pianism. |
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Anything deemed to be too sexy, provocative, or disrespectful would be denied. |
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Bowen is the latest in a line of old-style comedians to have landed themselves in hot water after using racially provocative language or jokes. |
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By most accounts he is quite conservative, even if he is not known for provocative speeches and fiery dissents. |
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His insights are deeply provocative, wise and conveyed in an elegant prose. |
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Throughout the text, Graubard's lapidary prose is lucid and provocative, likely to induce a glow of pleasure in the reader. |
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Fighting for the Future, for all its provocative arguments and pithy language, sometimes borders on the apocalyptic. |
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Her work is provocative and emotionally wrenching, yet overwhelmingly beautiful and intellectually compelling. |
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According to residents, police then began a provocative large-scale mobilisation in the area. |
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He is an epistemological realist, an ethical intuitionist, and a political libertarian, too extreme for my tastes but always provocative. |
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I mean this is provocative statements that are inviting a counter reaction from the government, and now she got it. |
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A poetic, provocative choreographer, her work continually challenges aesthetic conventions. |
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His latest provocative intervention concerns the wanton promotion of pap, and along the way he has a pop at just about everyone. |
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Her intellectually provocative essay on the songs is touched by fashionable postmodernist ideas. |
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Her studies of pubescent girls and her pictures of her own children in provocative poses have courted controversy wherever they have been shown. |
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Branagh's film thus presents us once again with a provocative conflict between form and content. |
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The study's findings are provocative but not conclusive, say researchers on brain lateralization, giftedness and mathematics education. |
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He is a frequent, well read and provocative poster at this and other blogs, and has now launched out in his own right and started a solo blog. |
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She's especially lucky in regards to the film's provocative treatment of sexuality. |
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Glasgow is not the first place where the Ipswich band's deliberately provocative clothing has caused outrage. |
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Underneath his carping about provocative dress is a jealous and irrational partner. |
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It's in keeping with the rest of this discursive, stimulating book that Kermode leaves the reader with such a provocative, rhetorical question. |
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The channel airs provocative documentaries on leading social and political issues pertinent to the present day. |
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The effect of provocative bra ads on billboards may well be just as arousing as that of Desmond's Celebrity Babes. |
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We must assume his comments were deliberately provocative to attract interest to the rather dry topic of female participation in public life. |
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This wide-ranging selection of literary theory essays is highly provocative and provides many concepts for discussion. |
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The deputies blamed him for instigating a social explosion through his law-and-order policies and provocative statements. |
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Witty examinations of the more louche aspects of sexuality are masked by music so exquisite that the provocative subject matter barely registers. |
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In his intentions, this running fire of a provocative and fascinating thesis should provoke a healthy optimism. |
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When I opened them a tall, brunette woman in a provocative green dress stood before me. |
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How is such a rewritten text disturbing, interesting, assaultive, provocative? |
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Stapleton's approach is an extreme one, and perhaps deliberately provocative. |
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I do sometimes purposely write about things that I know will be considered provocative, and I don't mind taking the heat for my words. |
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The FBU believe that the government is being deliberately provocative, and it is difficult not to share the view. |
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You see, with one particular male-female dyad, provocative tensions were escalating rapidly. |
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Leading on from this, the article turns provocative when it addresses English and the vexed matter of case. |
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This spoof, fly on the wall, documentary is funny, scary, provocative, disturbing and has a real point to make. |
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We are not wearing provocative necklines, neither short skirts nor are we showing our backsides. |
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This excellent study is scholarly, clearly written, informative, and provocative. |
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Let me change the subject away from race, to Leroi's provocative remarks about beauty and deformity. |
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The code also enjoins the rebels and the government to refrain from any provocative acts such as arrests, kidnapping and extortion. |
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Without exception, the screen prints from the two print studios are beautiful, provocative and well done. |
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British officials strongly advised against the move, warning that it could be seen as provocative or even insulting. |
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For all his occasional gaucheness and undue display, he is the most thoughtful and provocative poet writing in English today. |
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In 1989 and 1990 there was a spate of provocative articles on the country's past. |
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She was wearing a tight-fitting black cocktail dress that was rather provocative. |
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Peta is well known for its provocative ad campaigns, which sometimes feature nude models proclaiming they'd rather go naked than wear fur. |
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Of course, politics could and should be made more accessible, interesting, provocative. |
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What I intended as a provocative metaphorical goad, Hart took literally as a definite and categorical challenge, which I welcome. |
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Most provocative of all the Ediacaran forms are those exhibiting real or apparent metamerism. |
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I was very pleased to be asked to comment on the engaging and provocative articles in this volume. |
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These essays provide a variety of interesting, provocative perspectives on science in Canada. |
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He was the most enigmatic and the most provocative painter of the early Soviet period. |
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As juvenile crime rises, here and across the country, tonight's confessions of a York teenager make provocative reading. |
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You might not agree with everything there, but hopefully you'll find it all provocative, informative, and generally worth your while. |
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It's sad to see such a provocative thinker go out with a whimper instead of a bang. |
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The police would no doubt argue that provocative goal celebrations could incite crowd trouble. |
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The model's poses, at first glance sexually provocative, are actually those used by wolves. |
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Yet however good it is, it seems rather tame compared to the provocative brilliance of his earlier work. |
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A campaign for hosiery featured the standard disembodied, stocking-clad leg that Dali juxtaposed with his provocative iconography. |
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While the red dress was provocative and outrageous, this dress was demure and conservative, not exposing much of anything. |
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At a family therapy session, one family member said something totally uncalled for, provocative, and insulting to another person. |
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What impact do the raw and explicit lyrics in hip-hop music and provocative images of women in the videos have on our girls? |
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The film doesn't gloss over the violent nature of the drugs industry, but its sympathetic portrait of the mules is quietly provocative. |
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However, body shaming and cheap, provocative attempts to increase site traffic have drowned out your pro-women message. |
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I know no poet who, even in quite slapdash poems, can provide more pleasant and provocative surprises. |
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The provocative sportscaster-slash-pundit takes on five of the biggest controversies of the day. |
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When those dark and provocative thoughts enter your mind uninvited, don't concentrate and obsess over them. |
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Scapegoats have been created in a demagogic and provocative fashion in order to justify the strengthening of existing laws. |
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Not only that, the filmmakers created a provocative action film that ponders the essence of reality and identity. |
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When a movie is described as provocative, it usually means its star has deigned to bare his or her naughty bits for the audience's delectation. |
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But instead of smilingly accepting the accolades of his fellow Nazarenes, Jesus turns provocative. |
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The film pieces together unrelated images and discordant sounds to evoke provocative after-images that flow seamlessly into one another. |
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Such defiantly provocative work, and the uproarious punk music which accompanied it, won him cult status. |
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It traces developments of provocative networks and typologies for regional planning and new urbanism. |
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Those provocative words have sparked an emotional debate and strong reactions. |
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The number of provocative questions raised make it a most definite asset to the fields of African film and cultural studies. |
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The movement went to extremes in its use of buffoonery and provocative behaviour to shock and disrupt public complacency. |
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Each picture is a grid of 16 photographs headed by letters spelling out an obscene word or provocative statement. |
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A woman lies writhing on the floor in a provocative outfit as vibrant music with strong influences from the Middle East plays in the background. |
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Recent provocative and hooliganistic statements have villainously slandered our nation and threatened the joyful happiness of our people. |
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Does the press gallery bump up the significance of a potential challenge because it provides such good copy and provocative sound bites? |
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During the interwar period, there was little more provocative in the arts than a woman in command, celebrating the eroticism of the body. |
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The fashion industry dresses them in sexually provocative clothing. |
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Her sly, skewering banter and provocative cynicism were her defense in a male-dominated profession and also her selling point. |
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He roamed the streets of Athens asking people provocative questions that exposed uncomfortable contradictions in their beliefs. |
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But to some, the idea of a 6-year-old lending her image to a brand famous for provocative spreads and buxom models is inexcusable. |
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Far from an image one would readily conjure up as a waltz, La Valse's sexually provocative choreography was reminiscent of Glen Tetley's lascivious Rite of Spring. |
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This means not offering provocative remarks on a combustible topic like immigration, which is sure to make them enemies. |
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This provocative thesis elicits flat denials from both governments. |
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As long as he does nothing wilfully provocative, he has considerable freedom to redefine his personal position on matters of faith and conscience. |
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In fact, the question, though provocative and culturally important, may not even be new. |
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She is a woman with strong, provocative, and deceptively intuitive opinions. |
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The goal is to decrease exposure to provocative actions through patient education, as well as through appropriate ergonomic changes in the worksite area. |
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Violent and provocative, Boardwalk Empire's story isn't all sawed off shotguns and brutal beatings. |
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Ian is an aspiring journalist and promises to provide provocative news programs to complement the already regular news we offer every day at noon. |
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Its provocative themes were smothered by a talky libretto that alternated between earnest exposition and sitcom jokes, set in smoothly tonal, insipid musical language. |
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He has sobered up and moved upstate, but his work is still as edgy and provocative as ever. |
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This strain of enterovirus seems unusually provocative in irritating lower airways, thereby causing airway narrowing. |
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He was rude and antagonistic to my friends, kept picking arguments and was often deliberately provocative, manipulating people into tense arguments. |
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Modernly, such a zone would be both wildly provocative to both Sunnis and central Iraqi Shia and also geopolitically tempting for Iran to get involved. |
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Playing such a provocative character, she may have been risking her career and incurring the anger of her fans who expected the usual singing and light-footed girl-next-door. |
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He has identified and analysed key icons in his usual provocative fashion, a cheerleader for a roll-call of many of the great from the world of architecture. |
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The best-selling author delivers an absorbing and provocative new novel about the low-down schemes and broken dreams that follow a fractured marriage. |
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To a Luvale, speaking Lunda was provocative enough to lead to violence. |
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Still, the music, though admittedly provocative, almost always plays the role of sonic backdrop to her ridiculous tangential meditations, which ultimately sink the album. |
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It is, alternately, a provocative and pensive soap opera that puts the gothic in southern gothic. |
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His post-election press conference was too long, too provocative, and too stingy in his phoned-in praise for the winners. |
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We saw how such provocative actions only inflamed passions and escalated the unrest. |
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It's a wonderfully rich, thoughtful and provocative piece of drama. |
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Watch the brave and limber artist go Cirque-du-Soleil style and dance with some provocative figures. |
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Discarding the idea of testing the waters with a provocative contribution, I just asked what they would do. |
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Deep Throat has a funny, provocative plot and a theme song evoking both Mickey Mouse and Mr. Rogers. |
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The religious history, while provocative, is built on shifting sands. |
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The most provocative position comes from Senator Joseph Lieberman, the right-leaning Democrat masquerading as an Independent. |
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Michel Odent, who is perhaps best known for introducing birthing pools to obstetric wards, has written a slim but provocative book on the subject of love. |
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Realising he has raised a red rag, he mollifies his provocative stance. |
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Multi-faceted, open-ended and provocative, this is a film whose many parallel scenes, recurring motifs and curious ironies offer plenty of fuel for thought. |
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We should therefore not be surprised that the twenties were an enthusiastic display of unchaperoned dating, provocative dress, and exhibitionist behavior. |
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Included in the measure are provisions that were opposed by the UN weapons inspectors themselves as not only unnecessarily provocative, but unrealizable. |
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But Homeland is also a highly provocative drama, fueled by paranoia, patriotism, zealotry, and madness. |
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It challenges you with provocative ideas, and doesn't spoon-feed you. |
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She wasn't tall, she wasn't voluptuous, she wasn't provocative. |
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But is his quaff really as provocative a fashion statement as Mel says it is? |
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Within this group were some of the most provocative online communicators I have ever met, ranging from the hilariously lewd to the buttoned-up and implacably self-righteous. |
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Mixed in with his rapid-fire prophecies are plenty of provocative assessments of the present. |
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Young man, are you being deliberately obtuse and provocative? |
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Think of castanets, foot stamping, tambourines and bright silk costumes and you have a picture of the fandango, a sexually provocative, very popular, Spanish dance. |
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Designers endlessly loot the iconography, innovations and raw materials of military dress to create a new fashion that is robust, functional, provocative and street-smart. |
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He was in his day a provocative writer, a challenger of received wisdom. |
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To improve your click-through rate, try asking a relevant and provocative question in your banner for which the audience will have to click to get the answer. |
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And also, as the book says, it's a polemic, meaning that it's going to be one-sided and immoderate, and basically just something provocative to start you thinking. |
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The Court might seek to change parts of it piecemeal and over a period of time as this would appear to be less provocative towards an elected body. |
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A New Museum retrospective suggests that Adrian Piper's aggressively provocative work is as much the product of her genes as of her fervid talent. |
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Sales of land became increasingly provocative of friction as Fijians began to assert claims against each other and then to sell the disputed areas. |
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The riot squad were quite provocative, aggressive and intimidatory. |
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Whether apoptosis turns out to be a feature of garden-variety human emphysema awaits much further study, but these initial observations are provocative. |
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The professor of gerontology at the University of Newcastle is giving this year's series of five Lectures under the provocative title The End Of Age. |
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This provocative attention getter became known as the batty rider. |
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Whilst Courbet was an open revolutionary, Manet did not deliberately produce provocative paintings, in his eyes he was emulating the early greats. |
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I'm not trying to be deliberately provocative here, by the way. |
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The sharp-chinned, goateed 55-year-old is too impatient with black stagnation to mince words, though he softens his more provocative statements with a disarming chuckle. |
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I feel fairly sure that your article was deliberately provocative. |
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It is sexy and glamorous like a rose bouquet, and provocative and intense! |
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Despite its pulpy theme, the story is provocative and acutely depressing. |
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The importance of provocative teaching from the pulpit is to remind and encourage persons of all ages to hear anew the call to discipleship which God issues. |
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He both convenes community and shatters its calcifications, creating the space for oracular truths to emerge while posing equally provocative dilemmas. |
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I prefer articles which are provocative to those which follow well-worn grooves because I think the development of critical thinking is important to good debate. |
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I know academics like to be provocative and have a good ding-dong. |
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A little-known Federal law allows individuals to send a Prohibitory Order against companies that are sending unsolicited sexually provocative or erotically arousing mail. |
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His delivery is so smooth that it appears extemporaneous, but his analyses and the provocative bombs he drops hit with such precision that he played this tune before. |
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Finally, the provocative test for snapping the iliopsoas tendon is to bring the hip back and forth between flexion and external rotation and extension and internal rotation. |
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Proprioceptor, an array of flat, convex, and concave circular mirrors mounted on adjustable steel armatures, is sophisticated and provocative. |
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The clubs were packed with European showgirls dancing the night away in everything from tutus to provocative, see-through feathery dance outfits. |
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When Russia enacted a general mobilization, Germany viewed the act as provocative. |
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Far less starry than their recent films, it is intriguingly provocative but perhaps a bit too low-key for its own good. |
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If you're feeling daring, boost that vampish appeal with provocative lingerie like peek-a-boo pants or plunge push-up bras. |
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She is one of our most penetrating and provocative critical thinkers. |
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In third place was provocative Russian duo Tatu who sang Don't Believe, Don't Fear, Don't Ask. |
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In his introduction to a live performance of the latter, Eastman sheds light on his provocative title choices. |
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Her newest collection of dinnerware features provocative pinups lounging on plates, bowls, and cups and saucers. |
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Nickel notes in his provocative catalogue essay, the picture is clearly and cheerfully fake. |
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They usually dress in skimpy, provocative clothing, regardless of the weather. |
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Instead, it was superficially crass and, in turn, barely provocative. |
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Price's provocative piece on culture and moralism may have application in a number of prevention areas. |
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Crick is an excellent and provocative political journalist, but he was miscast here. |
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The provocative food study began with a standard upper GI exam using liquid barium alone. |
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The book offers many provocative statements, many informative ones, and many that are avoidably erroneous or obscurely brief. |
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His aphoristic style undergirds a profound and provocative approach to fundamental theological questions. |
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Belloc's friend, Lord Sheffield, described his provocative personality in a preface to The Cruise of the Nona. |
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Mary refuses to speak aspirationally, and herein lies the most provocative proof of her radicalness, which Baron disavows. |
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This is a provocative subject that is ready-made for the classroom. |
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Each firm, moist piece packs a provocative sweet and savory punch. |
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Webhead, a weekly column of provocative opinions about computing and the Web. |
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The band was really wailing as we quickly made our dance moves in a most provocative manner. |
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The author adumbrates the logic of representation and representation in a provocative manner. |
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So-called shockvertising, in the form of ads that are deliberately provocative to draw attention to themselves, is becoming increasingly popular. |
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This was very provocative to Marius, since many of his enemies were encouraging Sulla to oppose Marius. |
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He wrote under a pseudonym, Friedrich Oswald, to avoid connecting his life in a Pietist industrialist family with his provocative writings. |
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Cranach, apart from portraits, developed a format of thin vertical portraits of provocative nudes, given classical or Biblical titles. |
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The complex but fundamental relationship between language and graphism is one of the more provocative recognitions of Gesture and Speech. |
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She carries out this interrogation with operations that become provocative simply because they are not legitimized by the art system's established conventions. |
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It is true that Hall isn't interested in racial legitimatization, but rather in provocative, groundbreaking, interdisciplinary historical methodology. |
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Even one of its founding members has accused its slain athiest editor Patrick Charbonnier of dragging the team down by releasing increasingly provocative and racist cartoons. |
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This was the first in a series of provocative acts culminating in the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the beginning of the Second World War. |
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Their works, covering a span of eight years, record a literarily most creative and ideologically most provocative period in modern Chinese literature. |
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The press took seriously all Shaw's provocative ambiguities and clownings, and Lady Astor was identified with his most outrageous actions and statements. |
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But the work is also a provocative literalization of the Minimalists' sculptural turn to the horizontal, and a jocoserious gloss on Fried's theatricality. |
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From the author's experience, provocative gonioscopy and channelography are useful to determine the overall status of the individual case before surgical intervention. |
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In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire. |
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Africanists, migration historians, and scholars interested in recent French immigration, will want to become familiar with this provocative and wide-ranging book. |
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Death Comes for the Deconstructionist is a tragi-comic mystery, a detective story that is at once suspenseful, provocative, and emotionally resonant. |
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In response to such provocative acts, Caesar mobilized his troops. |
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