provocateur

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This is the director’s first film, and you sense him working in the same mode as early Yorgos Lanthimos before the Greek provocateur felt confident that a charismatic performance wouldn’t overshadow his script.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

The reader doesn’t discover much about how Mansfield’s work was shaped by changing personal circumstances, from hectic bohemia to a series of continental spas, and learns too little about Mansfield’s achievements as a literary provocateur.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Reckzeh had been set up as a spy and agent provocateur by the Gestapo: Thadden had been fooled by his elaborately constructed cover story.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

Fuentes famously spent years harassing Kirk and his Turning Point staff at similar college campus events before Kirk banned the provocateur.

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2025

Coleman is a classicist who studied at Oxford and a former consultant for McKinsey & Company who clearly enjoys his role as a provocateur.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove