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Simple sentences
After seeing her provocative body, he became obsessed with her.
Mary is wearing provocative clothing.
That's a really provocative question.
Movie subtitles
There is something very provocative about an anklet.
Here we have our lovely Lorraine in her exotic, exciting pose as a provocative provoking provocation.
What about her expression? Is it disturbing or provocative?
To make the presentation is last year's winner for this. his provocative performance in Judgment at Nuremberg. ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Maximilian Schell.
Provocative title.
Very provocative indeed.
I consider that provocative and interesting.
She was very provocative.
Something provocative!
There is something so provocative about a nurse in uniform.
Oh, because it's. it's provocative.
I will not have you displaying yourself in that provocative manner.
Professor Quadri's activities in France have become interfering and provocative.
You're being very provocative.
Something provocative about the feel of silk.
I wonder if we couldn't find something a little more provocative?
It can best be described as poignant, provocative, and a highly-diverting trip into the twilight zone.
Could this provocative stranger. be my husband, Herman?
He describes these provocative spheres as his aquaria and directs me to engage psychically any aquarium for which I feel empathy.
Yes, well, that's all very provocative, Mr Devlin, but what would his motive be?
The lovely, provocative Fatima will be placed inside this trunk here, with your swords thrust viciously into her body.
The art world is being asked to consider these provocative pictures as salable art.
And then, when he comes back, he's whistling some provocative tune.
It's extremely subtle and extremely provocative.
Make it as provocative as possible.
Into provocative clothes!
Haunting, provocative, languorous.
Gentlemen, gentlemen, come inside and see Loretta, the beautiful shadow on the Mediterranean screen, enticing, alluring, elusive, provocative, and two francs only.
I have no hesitation in categorically deIineating it as being barefaced provocative of the workers.
Feast your eyes, and admire her admirably provocative form.
This is a provocative question. I can put this question to you, too.
This is intolerably provocative!
There's something provocative about junk, which I like.
Remember, the whole point is to say something provocative.
News and current affairs
His comments infuriated London's provocative mayor, Boris Johnson, himself a classics scholar and author, who shot back that Clooney's position on the issue was similar to that of the Nazis portrayed in his film.
Despite efforts to downplay the significance of the Nuclear Posture Review since its publication, it remains, in my view, extremely provocative and dangerous.
In a matter of weeks, Bank Underground already has established itself as a fertile source of provocative ideas.
Jewish settlers act outside of the law and commit provocative acts harming Palestinians, rarely incurring any penal sanctions.
In the Netherlands, not normally a country known for clownish politicians, the surge of populism was first led by Pim Fortuyn, a flamboyantly gay man who staged provocative, and always richly entertaining, public appearances.
The proceedings of a conference that it organized earlier this year have now been edited under the provocative title What's the Use of Economics?
Even more provocative are the next steps: a plan to revamp the standard work contract and to require that all workers be invited to vote after eight days of a strike.
This provocative behavior lost Greece all potential allies in France and Italy.
But, while the film is full of emotion and provocative images, it is short on rational arguments.
Scholars used the Iraq debate to ask whether a state relinquishes its sovereignty when it loses popular support--a highly provocative topic in China.
Because he is provocative, political commentators and TV and newspaper interviewers were drawn to him.
But it is not the European Union that is being provocative.
Race has always been a provocative subject when the needs of science and statistics intersect with politics.
Some point a finger at Ariel Sharon, citing his provocative visit to the Temple Mount area of Jerusalem.
Moreover, such a formula should bar provocative actions by either side, including military exercises, such as those staged recently by China and, jointly, by the US and Japan.
Netanyahu's provocative policies and statements, which have undermined support for Israel among even its closest allies, would be supplanted by a willingness to negotiate in earnest and make genuine concessions.
Yet, despite this spending shortfall, Putin seems obsessed with making pointless and provocative gestures, such as resuming long-range nuclear bomber flights off the American coast.
Not only did China denounce the referendum as provocative, but so did the US President George W. Bush.
That is a grave oversight, for it is clear that Russian foreign policy has again taken a provocative and confrontational turn.
They will not let this election stand but neither will they succumb to Mugabe's provocative traps and resort to violence.