It has nothing to do with provocativeness or any fault.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2006] Reference

Other examples of filtering: Eudora had a red-pepper scale of the provocativeness of an email.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

At issue is whether the ad's obvious provocativeness eclipses or enhances its fundamental message.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hullabaloo] Reference

Resistances manifest by clowning, lateness, provocativeness, and defiance of the leader are typical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

In New York is Georgette Mosbacher who generally supports what she calls Ann Coulter's provocativeness and courage.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2006] Reference

Alas there was no evident provocativeness about the article; the journalist just seemed convinced by his arguments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin Sucks « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

Significantly, Jim acknowledged his affection and regard for his parents as he demonstrated insight, and acknowledged his provocativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

Food is picked at and eaten minimally and often surreptitiously; or conversely, the noneating pattern may be displayed with provocativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

In rebutting it the UNDER-SECRETARY FOR INDIA proved himself a grave and reverend SINHA, without a trace of the provocativeness displayed by his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28] Reference

The provocativeness of some of her early poetry, where she turned biblical stories and motives upside down, was replaced by an often solemn lyrical tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rajzel Zychlinski.] Reference

Even more than McNamara, Draper misrepresents how we went to war with North Vietnam, by belittling the provocativeness of the 1964 Tonkin Gulf incidents.    From Wordnik.com.  [McNamara & Vietnam] Reference

I deeply appreciate the way the Christianity-Islam discussion wobbled a bit, and then straightened out by itself, never devolving into acrimony despite the extreme provocativeness of the subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

It has the qualities and defects of its parentage; but the qualities, a fine careless rapture, sensitive vision, a wayward and jolly fantasy, challenging provocativeness, faintly malicious humour, are dominant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917] Reference

Anon she smiled sweetly, and with a bewitching provocativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ziska] Reference

Obviously, there's very little artistic about what's within the frame, with its only value coming from camp provocativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paste Magazine] Reference

Till they met, the movement, the provocativeness was all on Lady Desdemona's side, Finn standing erect and still as graven bronze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan A Dog and a Romance] Reference

Must you compound your sheer silliness -- perverse provocativeness for its own sake -- by childishly mischaracterizing my response to it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [NY Daily News] Reference

Thus, the LA Times 'opinions section values diversity, provocativeness, and readability -- all good things -- but does not value accuracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAMERA Snapshots] Reference

Given the freshness and provocativeness of what happens at the Dragon, I was not surprised that I had to look up John Kolvenbach in Wikipedia before going to Love Song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artsopolis] Reference

Halloween Horror Nights festivities, Universal Orlando promised an "in-your-face" advertising campaign, with billboards the company vowed would seek new levels of provocativeness.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Curtis reveals that School of Seven Bells are anti-rock - there's too much of it; he's allergic to the whole blues tradition - and maybe such provocativeness could only come out of Brooklyn.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Bravado, provocativeness, and a gambler's instinct, with a love of hitting hard for the sake of exercise, is a temper which ought already to be counted among the vices rather than the virtues of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Reason] Reference

Englishwoman of good birth -- but there was a certain delicate aloofness about her expression and bearing which gave an added charm to a personality which seemed to combine the two extremes of provocativeness and reserve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo] Reference

I do not say we were martyrs to the honour of our house and to our plighted word, but I do say that we got it very straight indeed, and we did not tell the provocativeness we had had from our guest that drove the poet Noël to this wild and desperate revenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune] Reference

The fact was, that Harald had, -- partly by his provocativeness and naughtiness, and partly by his friendship, his story-telling, and his native worth, which Susanna discovered more and more, -- so rooted himself into all her thoughts and feelings, that it was impossible for her to displace him from them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strife and Peace] Reference

The first is that, whatever Netanyahu did or didn't know about these particular housing starts, the episode is indicative of how deeply the settlement enterprise is entrenched within the Israeli system, and how deeply Israeli officials and politicians of various parties are committed to it, despite repeated requests, warnings, and condemnations from both the U.S. and the international community as to their provocativeness and illegality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference

"in-your-face" advertising campaign, with billboards the company vowed would seek new levels of provocativeness.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The art of living: aesthetics of the ordinary in world spiritual traditions act like you know: african-american autobiography and white identity my teacher richard rorty used to argue - with typical provocativeness - that philosophy was.    From Wordnik.com.  [eye of the storm] Reference

My point is, the field can’t expect larger audiences and bigger sales numbers, unless it stops being insecure about itself and stops projecting visual insecurity via cliched design decisions that hide the gusto, spirit, invention and provocativeness of a book.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Book Cover Post: Wizards & Spaceships] Reference

It is certain that Mr. Martyn and Mr. Yeats were glad of the assistance of Mr. Moore in founding "The Irish Literary Theatre," not only for the prominence of his name as novelist and as Moore of Moore Hall, and for his known provocativeness in pamphleteering and his capacity for drawing the fire of opponents, but for what knowledge he had of playwriting and for what experience he had in getting together and training actors for special performances such as those of "The Independent Theatre.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Plays and Playwrights] Reference