provocateur

How To Use provocateur In A Sentence

• Arguing that FDR provoked the attack was Gore Vidal, novelist, provocateur, T. V. icon, and one of the greatest English-language essayists alive.
• On the right, flamboyant talking head/provocateur Ann Coulter defended the imagined health benefits of a release of radiation to counter what she calls the alarmism of the environmentalists. Danny Schechter: Beyond Fukishima: A World in Denial About Nuclear Safety
• Prompting the walkout is the much anticipated and imminent announcement by the United Nations Tribunal doing the investigating of the killings of official indictments against Hezbollah terror operatives reporting directly to Hezbollah's Secretary General Sheikh Nasrallah -- Hezbollah's mini ayatollah and Iran's puppet agent provocateur. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Firestorm Among Lebanon's Cedars
• Neil Labute has a reckless, bordering on feckless, talent as a writer and provocateur, taking as much pleasure burrowing into messy sex lives as a toddler with a toy spade into a sandlot.
• I was practically certain that Hertz Lipmann was not a provocateur.
• Obviously he was another agent provocateur, entrapping a suspect. KARA KUSH
• Agents provocateurs may seek to discredit the opposition.
• `I've often wondered how largely illness acts as agent provocateur for religious faith. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
• The officers had been acting as Agents provocateurs, and had procured the appellants to commit the offences.
• The choice of this elegant townhouse space gave the exhibition a relatively restrained tone, especially in light of Geers's reputation as a provocateur.