Why, oh why, Bastiat implored Cobden, would Britain not consent to shrink its provokingly large navy? ❋ James Grant (2011)
Rabb's prose can occasionally be provokingly gnomic, but as usual, he has a good story to tell and most readers will bear with him contentedly. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This kind of thought, is provokingly problematic, in that if animals are able to experience, and if we agree (or basically agree) on some level that this is the case, then the argument for their death/confinement for production of bodily secretions at our hands + for our purposes, consumption + taste makes a family farm a killing factory as is a factory farm. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In its insistent interrogation of Jewishness? from the exploration of the relationship between the perpetrators of violence and hatred and their victims, to the idea of the individual at once in opposition to and in love with his or her culture? it is by turns breezily open and thought-provokingly opaque, and consistently wrong-foots the reader. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Do you know that President Obama is considering banning fishing in America?" one woman provokingly asks, and the interviewer deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for resisting the temptation to answer, "No, but if you hum a few bars I can fake it." ❋ Unknown (2010)
But then I decided to write this post first, and then Twitter and comments kind of exploded, mostly very civilly and thought provokingly but now my head hurts and I don't feel like writing anymore. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Robert Hewison would argue that I'm sensible to do that; although he would suggest that preserving the past is part of the impulse to preserve the self (that justifies the contents of our loft then) too much nostalgia also has its dangers and he elaborates very thought-provokingly in his book The Heritage Industry: Britain in a Climate of Decline which is quite a revealing expose of the growth, manufacture and marketing of heritage. ❋ Unknown (2007)
* Oliver Morton discusses this and related issues in his provokingly lyrical book Eating the Sun. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)
She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold, which her great-great-grandmother had brought over from Saardam, the tempting stomacher of the olden time; and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round. ❋ Jessica Verday (2009)
Do you think the US would send naval vessels out to provokingly sail close to Iranian ships? ❋ Unknown (2008)
“There again now,” rejoined the Liegeois, looking, as he spoke, most provokingly, yet most civilly, politic and intelligent. ❋ Unknown (2008)
With her back to this casement, then, and her face to the table, on which the keys lay for an instant while she tasted the various dishes which were placed there, stood the Lady of Lochleven, more provokingly intent than usual — so at least it seemed to her prisoners — upon the huge and heavy bunch of iron, the implements of their restraint. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Regardless of this whispered remonstrance, and affecting not to hear it, his tormentor provokingly continued: ❋ Unknown (2007)
Regionally Bush's 13th paradox is provokingly seeking the support of Sunni Arab governments in his new military campaign against their co-religious brothers in Iraq and mobilizing their anti-Iran efforts while at the same time his new strategy will only strengthen Tehran's hands in Baghdad. ❋ Unknown (2007)
