Close's work from the '80s and the '90s loses something of his earlier provocativeness.

Unless," he went on with some of his normal provocativeness,"you really were trying to trap me yourself?

If it requires some degree of provocativeness, the issue is important enough for that."

The degree of erotic provocativeness in a woman has no interest for me; I do not swing both ways, as the expression goes.

We were very, very careful not to show that provocativeness."

Its main feature is provocativeness and mockery while being formally polite.

Carmen, for all her wild provocativeness, is decidedly unsexy at first.

Often in theater, the provocativeness of a play's title correlates with quality, and not in a good way.

But at the same time, his provocativeness has impressed Rutgers administrators and students, who welcome the debates he stimulates.

Ms. Israeloff missed the philosophic richness and provocativeness of her son's essay questions.

Unlike the canned provocativeness of so much television, the trials are open to a whole range of conjecture and outrage.

"She was looking for freshness, provocativeness."

As a choreographer who has succeeded in making a virtue of a natural provocativeness, Mr. Jones is particularly inspired here.

In their purity, restraint and subtle provocativeness, Ms. Levine's paintings for the most part cannot be faulted.

The most masterful part of his show was how he covered his models but didn't lose a bit of the provocativeness of the clothes.

I envied them their unconscious provocativeness, yet I couldn't really wish I had been blessed with it.

The provocativeness of the theory also generated great discussion and renewed attention to the difficulties in the foundations of the old quantum theory.

He was also attracted to its message that people are full of contradictions and its provocativeness, stating that "you can't not react to it."

What you see missing in a lot of the clones of 'Twilight Zone' made since then is that same sense of true provocativeness.

Liza Bruce, an American designer who lives in London, has given the one-piece suit new provocativeness by the use of mesh.

There are still surviving photographs of that era, of women in costumes that leave no doubt that "feminine provocativeness" reached its peak then too!

The Fly praised its "motorik futurism, breathy provocativeness, and pogo glowstickerry" and called it "a precious debut".

Turkey's provocativeness in the Aegean is in direct dispute of European territory and frontiers, and is a threat to peace in the area.

Looking at her delicate profile, with the lush provocativeness of her mouth, he felt something savage well up in him at the thought that she might have been abused.

Her brief gray clinging shift well revealing the provocativeness of her thighs, the sweet feminine curves of her body there be- neath the clinging cotton.