provocation

Example Sentences

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Others speculated that, due to Fennell’s penchant for audience provocation, the quotation marks were an Easter egg indicating that her take on Brontë’s novel would be far from your great-great-grandmother’s “Wuthering Heights.”

From Salon

This is a movement that thrives on provocation but panics when that very provocation carries consequences.

From Salon

Lee has vowed to mend ties with North Korea by stamping out provocations, and has even suggested a rare apology may be warranted.

From Barron's

Miller developed his taste for controversy and provocation at a relatively early age.

From BBC

Themes kick up that you couldn’t have guessed from the first act: provocations about class and caste, continent-spanning capitalism and surveillance states.

From Los Angeles Times