How To Use Provocation In A Sentence
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Of course, Whitty himself ain’t exactly a peach; he loves him some torture, and buries knives in bellies with minimal provocation; when it comes to witch-hunting, he’s of the “burn her alive now, ask questions … well, don’t really bother asking questions, it’s just so damn fun to burn people, let’s do it some more!” school.
Cry of the Banshee « Skid Roche
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Although he had not howled once, his snarling and growling, combined with his thirst, had hoarsened his throat and dried the mucous membranes of his mouth so that he was incapable, except under the sheerest provocation, of further sound.
CHAPTER XVI
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As the judge reminded the jury, in interview Bodrul denied that he was acting in self - defence and he said that he was not acting under provocation.
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Certain people were responsible for stopping conflicts, and there were ways to deal with provocations and ways to make peace.
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A polite tongue provided a shield of tactful silence and banal pleasantries that staved off needless provocation and harm.
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Minor building alterations brought forth mighty dagga plants; cannas migrated without provocation into any gap left by the lantana and inkberry.
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He used to suddenly get excited, for you could tell that he was excited, and rhapsodize at the slightest provocation about baseball - all he needed was the slimmest excuse, and sometimes none.
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Their methods of cover-up and provocation indicate a consciousness of guilt and a fear of exposure.
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If we could offer a tip it would be to never say tally-ho, whatever the provocation.
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As they wait for assistance to have the man taken into custody, they studiously ignored taunts and provocations and remained astonishingly polite throughout.
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I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e'en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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One of the soldiers responsible for this act of blatant provocation explained the rationale.
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Lesser butlers will abandon their professional being for the private one at the least provocation.
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For the prevention of at least some war, what matters is non-provocation and reassurance by means of defensiveness.
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And, sheer provocation:Does this Benetton poster encourage joyriding?
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In 2003, the military, even under government control, staged a series of provocations that undermined the peace talks.
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Let the sky rain potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of 'Greensleeves'; hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes; let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
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The CIM has deplored the incident as an uncalled for provocation by the miscreants.
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People are expected to control themselves even in the face of provocation.
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The judge also left provocation to the jury, though the defence did not request this.
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vex," therefore, is the heightening of grieving by a provocation unto anger and indignation: which sense is suited to the place and matter treated of, though the word signify no more but to "grieve;" and so it is rendered by lupeo, Gen. xlv.
Pneumatologia
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The brutal and inhuman methods of these organizations bespeak not liberation, but provocation.
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Police described it as a minor physical assault on a juvenile, apparently after some provocation.
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Otis, who bore lifelong grudges over provocations infinitely smaller than this, was realistic enough to know when he was had.
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He denies murder on the grounds of provocation.
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Besides the heart and the weakness of your opponent, you have still another chance, in ruffling his temper; which, in the course of a long conversation, you will have a fair opportunity of trying; and if – for philosophers will sometimes grow warm in the defence of truth – if he should grow absolutely angry, you will in the same proportion grow calm, and wonder at his rage, though you well know it has been created by your own provocation.
Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
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But an unnamed friend of the teenager said the youngster was joking and talking with a soldier guarding the barracks when the soldier opened fire without provocation.
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In some cases defendants run the two qualified defences of provocation and diminished responsibility in tandem.
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They have at times had to withstand considerable provocation from intransigent bigots on the extreme wing of unionism.
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When two men become involved in a brawl and start trading blows and punches and kicks and so forth, how does the law of provocation relate to that circumstance?
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Now, in five years, there have been no provocations save one, a naval skirmish in 2002.
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This method for measuring the perception of respiratory sensation may be a viable alternative to the bronchial provocation test.
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As with the late cinema of Pasolini, it's hard to know where provocation ends and camp self-parody begins.
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Wee are in the wrong, to thinke her incommodities serve her as a provocation and seasoning to her sweetness, as in nature one contrarie is vivified by another contrarie: and to say, when we come to vertue, that like successes and difficulties overwhelme it, and yeeld it austere and inaccessible.
That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die.
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Everyone weeps at the slightest provocation.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's hard to know where provocation ends and camp self-parody begins.
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He kept his cool under extreme provocation.
The Sun
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Nothing, of course, justifies physical attacks on dissenters, but one does wonder whether some provocation was not involved.
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These include fear or provocation of violence or intentional harassment, alarm or distress.
The Sun
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Why can't people understand what a fantastic achievement two-and-a-half years of ceasefire has been, given the ceaseless provocation?
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Well, I think that obviously he controls his security forces and they need to do more to try to make sure that the provocations don't take place.
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D was convicted of murder having raised both the defences of provocation and diminished responsibility.
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Although we might expect him to respond to such success with decorum, he took the opposite tack, highlighting his improprieties and provocations.
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Next door was a left-wing radical who saw this as provocation.
Times, Sunday Times
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And a strike, under certain provocation, may extend as far as did the general strike in Belgium a few years since, when practically the entire wage-earning population stopped work in order to force political concessions from the property-owning classes.
THE CLASS STRUGGLE
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He gave her a talking-to after dinner, instructing her that words like ‘damn’ and ‘hell’ were only to be used in instances of extreme provocation and that was that.
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In such a case there is simply no triable issue of provocation.
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Claims of sexual provocation were not enough to sway a jury from finding Far North farm worker Craig Ross guilty of murder.
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'If anybody is the dragon to the treasure he covets he is a spadassin who won't hesitate at provocations.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 3
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I'd like to think I've answered those critics who had lambasted me for my disciplinary problems and, under some provocation at times this summer, I've held my composure.
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The word vex with us means to provoke, irritate, by petty provocations.
Barnes New Testament Notes
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Given the present degraded state of the film industry, its subject matter, this is nearly a provocation.
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Better to bring the cyst of Islamofascism/terrorism/whatever to the surface through provocation where it can be lanced, no matter how painful that may be in the short term, than to palliate its symptoms through appeasement while letting it fester beneath the surface (with many things like not-torturing-people being appeasement).
Matthew Yglesias » Torture and Stick-Beating
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While woodchucks tend to be pretty silent, their cousins are quite vocal and emit loud piercing whistles or chirps at the slightest provocation.
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Chen's action was an obvious and willful provocation and a high - stake gamble.
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Hence are the various courses of unhumbled sinners in the world, wherein the outrage and excess of some seems to justify others in their more sedate irregularities and less conspicuous provocations.
Pneumatologia
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All of this adds to the danger of an uncontrolled slide into political adventurism, military provocation and war between the two nuclear-armed powers.
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Although he had not howled once, his snarling and growling, combined with his thirst, had hoarsened his throat and dried the mucous membranes of his mouth so that he was incapable, except under the sheerest provocation, of further sound.
CHAPTER XVI
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In the heat of the moment few would have been able to ignore such mocking provocation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Infuriated by what he calls a treacherous and unacceptable provocation from the diplomatic mission, Cuban communist leader, Fidel Castro began building his response a few days later.
CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2006
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The success of mini-game collections and sports games point to the audience loving games that promote playing together with friends in the same room, rather than the CoD or Halo experience, where the gamer is in a dark room, palms sweaty and fingers ready to twitch analog sticks at the slightest provocation.
Wii On The Brain
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She is the most high-maintenance person who ever lived, throwing tantrums at the least provocation: ‘I haven't had a bath for seven hours!
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If not, then they deserve some sympathy for respecting the standards of civilized behaviour in the face of provocation by those not similarly inhibited.
REBELS AND REDCOATS: The American Revolutionary War
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It's important to decide what's more significant: the annihilationist anti-Israel ranting, the Holocaust denial and other Iranian provocations -- or the fact of a Jewish community living, working and worshipping in relative tranquillity.
See No Evil
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I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e’en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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The film maker is famed for being super polite and calm in the face of extreme provocation.
The Sun
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But if the victim was a blackguard, is the shooter entitled to claim provocation or self-defense or some other statutory excuse to reduce the charge to one of manslaughter or even a simple assault?
The Famous Black-McKaig Trial
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Only last week a young man was sentenced to a year in jail for being part of a 30-strong gang that humiliated and assaulted a man with Parkinson's disease whose only provocation to them had been to walk with a strange gait.
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Expect colour, raunch and provocation.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the time, he had imposed certain restrictions on himself and would not be induced to react, even once, to their provocations.
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Both were trying to shake up capitalism by extreme provocation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whatever the reasons, whatever the provocations, this is where hatred gets us - innocent people murdered as they go about their ordinary business.
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Officers warned they could attack with the slightest provocation.
The Sun
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They were kind to her and apologetic to the rest of us in the face of extreme provocation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seizures could be nonepileptic if evoked in the normal brain by treatments, such as electric shock or chemical convulsants, or epileptic when occurring without evident provocation.
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Each barricade is an investigation of both fortification and subversion; designing for the defense of each checkpoint, while simultaneously attempting to undermine it’s perceived raison d'être through a means of confrontation, provocation, or absurdism.
Programming (In)Security
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But now, without any provocation, and without the justification of reprisal or retaliation, a refusal to outlaw the use of the bomb save in reprisal is making a political purpose of its possession; this is hardly pardonable.
Atomic War or Peace
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Each impasse dissolves into the other in their provocation and insolubility: how, on the one hand, to voice the ground of being in the fact of speech; and on the other, for instance, how to say "I" without meaning something else — or less — than identity.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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From an evolutionary perspective, aggression is a response to a potential threat or provocation across a variety of species and seems to be an inborn response tendency.
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Nothing but the greatest provocation could have tempted him; for of all the gentlemen I ever had in my house, I never saw one so gentle or so sweet-tempered.
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These provocations became the pretext for police attacks on peaceful demonstrators.
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Holst said of him that he ‘never joined in the ordinary hatred of Germany; he was utterly incapable of hatred under any provocation whatsoever’.
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Inherent in that provocation is NOTHING which indicates my own politics … you have got no idea about my opinions on these issues as I have never outlined them (nor will I).
I’m Here For An Argument. No You’re Not! Yes I am! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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However, I have read that in some places being (or dressing?) as a priest, or even better, a bishop is an irresistable provocation to some women.
Ring finger
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Provocations include not only the lack of grammar, but highly disjunctive and often obscure use of line breaks which abandon denotative and connotative functions of words in favour of half swallowed or choked sounds.
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Yet players these days react aggressively at the slightest provocation.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a time for cool heads and reasoned arguments, not for bluster and provocation.
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His provocations were always deliberately intended to challenge his readers as well as the establishment.
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It would please me much if you could wiredraw some of Gutts's * actuators into a proper provocation for my doing what I have propos d.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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He had a fiery temper and would explode at the slightest provocation.
The Sun
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South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik has urged North Korea to work for peace on the Korean peninsula and stop what he called "reckless military provocation".
South Korea Marks 61st Anniversary of Start of Korean War
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He had a fiery temper and would explode at the slightest provocation.
The Sun
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Alternatively the defence say she may have acted under provocation of a type which reduces murder to manslaughter in law.
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The trouble is, as Brian's post on the excellent video debunking of climate 'gate' shows, when people are willing to jump to crazy and unsubstantiated conclusions at the slightest provocation, the term skeptic just doesn't cut it.
TreeHugger
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Murder, rape and other hate crimes could be a mere provocation away.
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The insurgents take advantage of darkness to conduct provocations during armistices or when negotiations are underway.
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Quite naturally, this refuge for runaways was a provocation as well as a threat to southern slave interests.
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Of course, Whitty himself ain’t exactly a peach; he loves him some torture, and buries knives in bellies with minimal provocation; when it comes to witch-hunting, he’s of the “burn her alive, ask questions … or don’t really bother asking questions, it’s just so damn fun to burn people, let’s do it some more!” school.
Cry of the Banshee « Skid Roche
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Acting Interior Minister Mikhail Mindzayev said no one was hurt by the gunfire, which he called a provocation by Georgian forces.
Times Leader News
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Even where not deeply convincing, its shortcomings were provocations to think deeply.
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Vladimir Putin today angrily dismissed protests against his regime as "provocations" and said anyone who took part in unsanctioned street rallies against the Kremlin should expect a "whack on the bonce".
Vladimir Putin says 'unsanctioned' protesters can expect police brutality
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But there was in these eyes an expression of art and design, and, on provocation, a ferocity tempered by caution, which nature had made obvious to the most ordinary physiognomist, perhaps with the same intention that she has given the rattle to the poisonous snake.
Rob Roy
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Those were the days when women wept facilely, "swooned," inhaled hartshorn, calmed themselves with sal volatile, and even went into hysterics upon slight provocation.
Sleeping Fires: a Novel
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Several investigators have carried out inhalation provocation tests using dropping extracts or bird sera.
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I shall recommend ways of keeping cool in the face of severe provocation.
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Those parties lose nothing if there is an election so can demand greater concessions and throw tantrums with much less provocation.
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And it is only ever used by loose-tongued people like Zaphod Beeblebrox in situations of dire provocation.
Making Light: Heads Up For Our Friends at Random House
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No country in the world is going to ignore the provocation of rockets being launched from neighbouring territory day after day.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jack would not have hit the boy without provocation.
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The provocation you received from Sir James Wal - lace, and the fuppofed laws of honor, by which you were induced to become the avenger of your own wrong, in order to avoid what you call dif - grace, f alfe and chimerical notions of honor receive no countenance or indulgence from this court, it is contrary not only to the laws of God and humanity, but to the municipal laws of this, and every country throughout the globe.
The trial of Lieutenant Charles Bourne : upon the prosecution of Sir James Wallace, Knt., for an assault : also the law pleadings, the arguments of counsel, and the speech of Mr. Justice Willes upon passing judgment
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The Deputy Commander has condemned this weekend's protest as deliberate provocation.
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Since then despite many provocations and setbacks the cessation has endured.
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Let the sky rain potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of Green Sleeves, hail kissing-comfits, and snow eringoes; let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here.
The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
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In the heat of the moment few would have been able to ignore such mocking provocation.
Times, Sunday Times
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They likewise indulge in chamomile tea and such – like compounds, and rub themselves on the slightest provocation with camphorated spirits and other lotions applicable to mumps, sore – throat, rheumatism, or lumbago.
Sketches by Boz
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He had a fiery temper and would explode at the slightest provocation.
The Sun
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This final provocation let the central executive to proscribe the committee on 21 September 1956.
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Murder, rape and other hate crimes could be a mere provocation away.
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Much of this is eminently disputable, yet the result is constructive stimulation rather than mere provocation.
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In tonight's episode, he meets a wife and mother who flies off the handle at the slightest provocation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The troupe aims at provocation and messages which make the audience, and themselves, really think.
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And in fact, he has been exemplary under extreme provocation.
The Sun
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Its volcanic composition makes the rock loose and friable, and likely to pull away in your hand at the slightest provocation.
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British governments maintained their phlegmatic calm and resisted provocation.
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If a man shoots another in self-defence, or under gross provocation, the death is not caused by accident.
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But when many states threaten each other for incongruent purposes, who is to do the deterring, and in the face of what provocation?
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Workers responded to the provocation by picketing the factory and over 150 barricading themselves inside a canteen.
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She fixes me with a look, a wonderful mixture of playfulness and provocation.
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So, too, is his apparently undiminished appetite for provocation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The victim's conduct had involved an element of provocation.
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This should include the abolition of the partial defences of provocation and diminished responsibility.
Times, Sunday Times
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The victim's conduct had involved an element of provocation.
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We are virtually certain that this incident was a deliberate provocation.
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The official news agency called the manoeuvres a dangerous provocation.
Signs of the Times
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Sticking with the laydeez, the F Word debates the bill currently going through Parliament regarding 'provocation' in murder cases.
Britblog roundup No. 205: fasten your seatbelts
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If a man shoots another in self-defence, or under gross provocation, the death is not caused by accident.
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I will grant you that ‘provocation’ may not be the most socially acceptable form of teaching from the pulpit.
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Sleeves, hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes; let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
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At least their singer knew that the days of Malcolm McLaren's situationist media provocation were well and truly over.
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Luckily Costa kept his cool under such provocation but the referee was far too lenient.
The Sun
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Now the poet hath undertaken, for their being kicked three or four times a-week about the stage to the gallows, infamously rogued and rascalled, to try what he can do towards making the charter forfeitable, by some extravagancy and disorder of the people, which the authority of the best governed cities have not been able to prevent, sometimes under far less provocations.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07
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The split broke out into the open on July 25, 1979, when the leftist paper Lotta Continua published a long document that had been left anonymously at their offices by "workerist" Brigadists and that severely criticized Curcio and other hard-line Brigadists for pursuing a terrorist policy of "provocation.
Terror in Italy: An Exchange
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Any judge would always take into account, when sentencing, issues such as premeditation, provocation, and those actions and events which lead to the actual injuries sustained, and there are appeal proceduresif they do not.
Comment on: Killing a gay man is no worse than killing a disc jockey
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He'd fly into a rage at the slightest provocation.
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It was very hurtful because he was someone I genuinely cared for and was trying to help and he had punched me with no provocation.
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The clouds were omnipresent, threatening to pour down some terrible precipitation at the slightest provocation.
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Further, the idea that because of this speech Obama “* will* be ridiculed, caricatured, harassed,” etc. by a conservative movement that has been doing all of those things for more than a year without any such provocation is breathtaking in its dishonesty.
Waldo Jaquith - Will your core beliefs switch with the presidency?
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Although Japan has repeatedly in the Diaoyu Islands provocation, however not dare rushed to provoke and our fight no-win military conflict.
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Five out of 10 patients had a positive result on provocation with their duodenal aspirate, developing epigastric pain.
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Are you saying that provocation is engaged wherever there is a loss of self-control?
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While Maulana Rehman has resiled from his position of opportunistic rebellion, she is unlikely to go back into the fold of the combined opposition without dire provocation by General Musharraf.
Corruption In Pakistan Is Main Reason of All Ills
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Through this play I am also expressing my apprehensions that due to constant provocations saner voices should not become 'sena' voices, and wish that 'sena' voices become saner voices.
The Hindu - Front Page
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You can use the rating scale to monitor changes over time in your youngster's ability to cope with provocations.
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He said that such provocation underscored the need for action against the defiance of a rogue nuclear power and the spread of weapons across the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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This lack of rest has caused a radical shift in my personality, making me cranky, irritable, and prone to curse loudly at the slightest provocation.
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Bronchial provocation with methacholine was performed to determine bronchial hyper-responsiveness (BHR) in the event of inconclusive spirometric results.
BioMed Central - Latest articles
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Nothing can be offered now to reward Pyongyang for its deliberate provocation.
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Madonna may have experimented with hair, politics, outfits and sexual provocation, but Kylie didn't.
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I could sense there were narcs in the cinema, but I felt safe with my attorney close by, ready to swing his gorilla fists into action at the slightest provocation.
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In fact, the South did not retaliate after earlier provocations, such as the terrorist bombing of a South Korean airliner and assassination attempt against former president Chun Doo-hwan which killed 16 ROK officials.
Let the Koreans Take Care of the Koreas
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I fear that this was in some measure owing to the fact, that Tom could probably have thrashed any boy in the room except the praepostor; [5] at any rate, every boy knew that he would try upon very slight provocation, and didn't choose to run the risk of a hard fight because Tom Brown had taken a fancy to say his prayers.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
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Please note that no mention of provocation is mentioned according to the law provocation is not an excuse for assaulting someone.
Think Progress » Steve King Blows Up, Physically Grabs TP Blogger When Asked About His Justification Of IRS Attack
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The review is there as a guideline, as an incitement, or perhaps at times merely a provocation.
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Why can't people understand what a fantastic achievement two-and-a-half years of ceasefire has been, given the ceaseless provocation?
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Perhaps we should invite those who criticise and abuse with little provocation?
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Every one of the major political parties is capable of mobilising gangs to create deliberate provocations in rival strongholds in order to disrupt voting.
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He learned to eat and dress and generally comport himself after the manner of civilized man; but through it all he remained himself, not unduly reverential nor considerative, and never hesitating to stride rough-shod over any soft-faced convention if it got in his way and the provocation were great enough.
Chapter I
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Keyes refused to speculate on either the provocations or the order of the deaths.
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Now, under a variety of provocations, mutiny is brewing.
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Any excessive display could be construed as the sin of pride and any unnecessary revealing or emphasizing of the body could be deemed a provocation to immoral behaviour.
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Deeming the man who would not fight on provocation a dastard, when brought to the test it seemed wrong that he should fight.
The Men of Forty-Mile
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So far the police have refused to respond to their provocations.
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This should include the abolition of the partial defences of provocation and diminished responsibility.
Times, Sunday Times
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The reference standard was the Tiffeneau ratio (FEV1 / VC) as received by spirometric manoeuvre and / or results of bronchial provocation.
BioMed Central - Latest articles
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Munir Hussain had his 30-month term slashed to a 12-month suspended sentence because he had acted under "extreme provocation" when he hit intruder Walid Salem with a cricket bat, Lord Judge ruled.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Burnley has become the third northern town to be hit by riots sparked by racist attacks and police provocations in the last month, following Oldham and Leeds.
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And why do you get all chesty at the slightest provocation?
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Believe me, there have been many temptations and down right provocations that would test the determination of even the saintliest of all.
The Early Word: Twelve Days - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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The walker I would describe takes no note of distance; his walk is a sally, a bonmot, an unspoken jeu d'esprit; the ground is his butt, his provocation; it furnishes him the resistance his body craves; he rebounds upon it, he glances off and returns again, and uses it gayly as his tool.
Winter Sunshine
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She was now wholly confirmed that he had wronged her with Mr Delvile; she could not have two enemies so malignant without provocation, and he who so unfeelingly could dissolve a union at the very altar, could alone have the baseness to calumniate her so cruelly.
Cecilia
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When this aspect is active by transit, you may be easily irritated and argue at the slightest provocation.
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But while the original essays were powerful provocations and polemics, the book itself is a disappointing and limited guide to current debates over the future of the university.
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In such a situation, pressure would be intense to launch nuclear weapons at the slightest provocation, lest the enemy be about to do the same.
Warfare in the Twentieth Century
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When she participates in trying to discredit the flotilla by characterizing it as a "provocation," as this letter does, she helps put its passengers in danger, because when something is characterized as a "provocation," the implication that many will draw is that violent repression of the "provocation" is justified.
Robert Naiman: Rep. Schakowsky, Am I a "Provocation"?
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One of the soldiers responsible for this act of blatant provocation explained the rationale.
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I now believe the rhetoric about missile defense from Mr. Obama throughout the campaign - always couched in the 'workability' argument - was designed to give voters the impression that the new administration would walk away from Bush's obviously mischievous provocation.
Biden Commits to 'Missile Defenses' to Counter Unspecific Threat from Iran
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Allan Compton, mitigating, said Carter did not intend using the knife but lost his temper and snapped under provocation.
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In the heat of the moment few would have been able to ignore such mocking provocation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, violent provocations seem to have come mostly from the other side -- the pro-Mubarak agitators, as in the infamous "Day of the Camels" assault by counter-revolutionaries mounted on horses and camels.
Did anti-Mubarak protesters assault Lara Logan?
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Lastly, there is Pakistan's loudly proclaimed intention of using nuclear weapons at the slightest provocation.
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The music was what counted but the cockiness, the combination of arrogance and provocation, the sheer effrontery was thrilling to witness.
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Their words sometimes resemble curses smacking of trash, provocations or an outburst of their personal emotion or the emotion of their own group.
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The victim's conduct had involved an element of provocation.
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But Charles and his audience believe that I was responsible for MSNBC's comments about LGF, either through direct instigation, which is false, or through indirect provocation through my two posts mentioning the site.
What's true - Anil Dash
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In fact, of course, the amount of government money used to fund such marginal causes is nugatory; but fantasy requires only the smallest provocation, and has little use for reality.
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To the hard-eyed realists of New Delhi, this book will only be a minor provocation from an old friend of India who has now gone slightly gaga.
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Still, other than the song I feel restless, irritated, lost and ready to snap at the slightest provocation.
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The film maker is famed for being super polite and calm in the face of extreme provocation.
The Sun
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The jaws were strong without massiveness, the nose, large-nostriled, was straight enough and prominent enough without being too straight or prominent, the chin square without harshness and uncleft, and the mouth girlish and sweet to a degree that did not hide the firmness to which the lips could set on due provocation.
CHAPTER IV
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As in life, the provocations to feeling or to action do not occur in step with the conscious thoughts of the characters.