6 sentences with “provocative”

The deep and reflective philosopher wrote a provocative and challenging essay on human existence.

Despite the criticism, the modern artist challenged traditional conventions of art and created striking and provocative works.

Futurist art itself was often bizarre and provocative - a Futurist work consisted of a curtain opening to an empty stage, the sound of a gunshot and a scream offstage, and the closing of the curtain.

The mouth of the urn, or peristome, provocative and coloured in this carnivorous silver, exhales a seductive perfume. The beetles and myriapods that fall into this chalice drink the elixir to the last drop. Bristly hairs inside the urn eliminate any hope of escape.

Almost every society in Europe exercised official censorship and many philosophers had to publish their more provocative works using pseudonyms, sometimes resorting to illegal publishing operations and book smugglers to circumvent such censorship (not to mention possible arrest).

In a sense, this period consisted of Hitler "playing chicken" with the rest of Europe: he would launch a dangerous and provocative initiative, and then see if the rest of Europe (i.e. mainly France and Britain) would respond with the threat of force or, on the contrary, back down.