I posed these provocatives to the inmates at a correctional facility where I've taught English Composition, Public Speaking, and Political Science (American government) as part of a community college outreach program. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I did not now enjoy a calm of reason enough to perceive, but ecstatically indeed! felt the policy and power of such rare and exquisite provocatives as the examples of the night had proved .... ❋ Unknown (2006)
Antiquity held too light thoughts from objects of mortality, while some drew provocatives of mirth from anatomies, + and jugglers showed tricks with skeletons. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I walk and read a great deal, ride and scribble a little, according as my lead allows, or my spirits prompt; to write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another, will only produce miserable, abortive performances. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The whisky toddy had in that instance brought out truth and not falsehood as is ever the nature of whisky toddy and similar dangerous provocatives. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The impudence of the spies, the mocking smiles of the police ready to show their power, were strong provocatives to the crowd. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Then, the man who says -- "God, by these provocatives and incitements, tries the obedience of his creature," intimates by these expressions, that those occasions and arguments which are presented by God when he intends to try, are not incitements and irritations to sin, through the end and aim of God. ❋ 1560-1609 (1956)
The SECOND REASON IS, that the creature being invited by the presenting of these allurements and provocatives to commit that act, cannot do otherwise than commit it; that is, such an excitation being laid down, the creature cannot suspend that act by which God intends to erect his work, otherwise God might be frustrated of his intention: Hence arises ❋ 1560-1609 (1956)
Europe, and thereupon evincing a disposition to assume an offensively distrustful and hostile attitude, requiring explanations, and disclaimers, and negotiations, which every one knows the slightest miscarriage may convert into inevitable pretexts and provocatives of war -- is really almost to court the destruction of our very national existence. ❋ Various (N/A)
Captain; but they will very seldom or never say any thing what grounds or provocatives they have given her for so doing. ❋ A. Marsh (N/A)
On a larger scale, in political and social affairs words are powerful provocatives of emotion and of actions, determining to no small degree the allegiances and loyalties of men and the satisfaction and dissatisfactions which they experience in causes and leaders. ❋ Irwin Edman (N/A)
They are at once the primary instruments and the primary provocatives to action. ❋ Irwin Edman (N/A)
Words thus become powerful provocatives of emotion. ❋ Irwin Edman (N/A)
This was so much rubbish to be moved out of the path of the nation, and by no means aids to its advancement, except as provocatives. ❋ Various (N/A)
There are now so many provocatives of appetite that it would seem as if we were all, after the manner of Heliogabalus, determined to eat and die. ❋ Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood (N/A)
They are slavering, servile, self-degrading productions, and only serve the exclusives as provocatives to laughter; they are usually written by tutors, ladies who have married tutors, or superannuated governesses, patronized by some charitable member of some distinguished family. ❋ Various (N/A)
The ambitions and glories of the world beyond our limited sphere came to our ken as matter of entertainment, not as provocatives to discontent. ❋ Unknown (1910)
It renders the habit of society dangerously valetudinary: it is taking periodical doses of mercury sublimate, and swallowing down repeated provocatives of cantharides to our love of liberty. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Within six paces of her crouched a man made desperate by the worst of terrors -- terror of himself; and maddened by the worst of all provocatives -- jealousy. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
"Too petulant to be passive to a genuine poet, and too feeble to grapple with him; -- men of palsied imagination and indurated hearts; in whose minds all healthy action is languid, who therefore feed as the many direct them, or, with the many, are greedy after vicious provocatives; -- judges, whose censure is auspicious, and whose praise ominous!" ❋ Henry W. Nevinson (1900)
[Jenny's] [low-cut shirt] is so provocative. ❋ You Who (2006)
No one knows what it means,
but it's [provocative].
- No, it's not. It's [gross].
- It gets [the people] going. ❋ Chef_George (2018)
when your [orchestra] director asks the bass [section leader] for suggested fingerings, that's provocative... or uhh [stuff like that]...
also if a test is long and hard ❋ Squirrel Poop (2005)
As she [sat on] the [counter], He thought "oh my how enticingly [provocative]." ❋ Life Lives (2019)
[ahhh], its [total] provocation being in the cubcle [next] to his ❋ Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhomgomgomgomg (2009)
[Kera] was [busting] some of her very [provocative] moves on the dance floor. ❋ Hello It's Your Death Calling (2019)
Hym "Provocative? You set yourself up for that one but that's telling. This is just about getting me to shut. You can both go fuck yourselves. The only people you serve, you serve in [abstraction] and not in actuality. 1 is a perfectly interchangeable cog in a [money redistribution machine] and the other a literal [false prophet]. What you deserve it to rot in obscurity in a university no one has heard of where everyone knows your work but no know you. Instead, you found a way to escape. Yelling at purple hair retards. And you found a way to impose your fate on someone who has 'wronged' you. Even better." ❋ Hym Iam (2022)
[Sara's] [ruffle] [skirt] is rather business provocative. ❋ Cap (2004)
Person 1: I forget everything!
Person 2: Per...per...[PROVOCATIVE SQUARES]!
Person 1: Let's [put that on] [a mug]. ❋ Notafakeaccount2 (2017)
Hym “I mean... As far as ‘Saying the more provocative (again) thing imaginable to become famous’ is easy then why [am I the only one] doing it? And why I’m I the most famous? I’m pretty sure Lucifer is based on me too. Sherlock Holmes-esque police consultant show where ‘The devil hates sin because why else would he punish it’ that was me. A [plurality] of entertainment stemming directly from this guy 😈👈 That’s me. Not as easy as it looks, alright? [Cut me some slack].” ❋ Hym Iam (2022)
