In this regard, there is a recurrent provocativeness in Weick's analyses, coupled with an impish spirit that often dances beneath his elegant prose. |
Leconte de Lisle's theories, reacting against Romanticism and stressing the need for impersonality and discipline in poetry, were expressed with deliberate provocativeness and exaggeration. |
Much has been written about the lecherousness of his smirks, but such provocativeness on his part definitely began in a presexual period. |
But, with some provocativeness, Payne assigns Lewinskian disempowerment not to the younger woman, but to the older man. |
He doesn't worry that his provocativeness will alienate customers or critics. |
Their success turns on their underlying cognitive dissonance, their provocativeness, and their ability to tap into sensation. |