Metzizah b†™ peh is both unprovocative and unsensual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Yesterday, Bush Said Confirming NYT Story “Would Compromise Our Ability To Protect The People”] Reference

Ibu Ina said something stern but unprovocative in her native language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spin] Reference

Experience had long ago shown that the only unprovocative reply was silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smokescreen]

Romney for US Senate a pleasant and unprovocative note to the incumbent Governor of Massachusetts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chimes at Midnight] Reference

"Besides, I'd hate to be called to prove the sweetness of your temper and your unprovocative ways.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference

Thanks for that been of unacknowledged African hopelessness amid an otherwise unprovocative piece. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outsource Your Chores — And Feel Good While You’re at It - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Such an unprovocative past has given pause to some liberal activists, who long to see a vibrant progressive voice join the Supreme Court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kagan Foes Stress Gay-Rights Stand] Reference

He stretched one long limb to make a hip pocket available to his hand, and with sick horror Toni saw her unprovocative brassiere go into it.    From Wordnik.com.  [River Of Desire]

Conservative Party MP Schalk Pienaar, drew blood and forced chairman Dr Dawie de Villiers to pull him up for spoiling the unprovocative style prevailing.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The only halfway feminine piece of apparel in her luggage was a sheer tailored silk shirt, and that had been included on a last-minute thought only because it took up very little space and might be useful if circumstances called for something slightly dressier than the baggy and thoroughly unprovocative clothes she had purchased in Manaus.    From Wordnik.com.  [River Of Desire]

He brought forward five unprovocative policy priorities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

As utilities do, they guarded their franchises, trying to remain everyone's good neighbor, friendly and unprovocative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Though the image itself is unprovocative in that it simply presents a young man, standing proud in his uniform, the painting courts controversy by inviting speculation about the Nazi associations it implies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum Blogs] Reference

As often as he heard music or saw in the soft turn of a cheek or the slender line of a wrist, what had moved him so in hers he felt himself urged forward on old trails, only to be scared from them by the apparition of himself as Eunice had evoked it from her bright surpassing surfaces, as a man unaccomplished in passion, unprovocative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lovely Lady] Reference

To this attitude of goodwill, of forebearance and genuine kindness to all, must be added, however, constant but unprovocative vigilance, lest unrestricted association with the peoples of the world should enable the very few who have been definitely pronounced by the Master as injurious to the body of the Cause, to make a breach in the Movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unfolding Destiny] Reference

To this attitude of good-will, of forbearance and genuine kindness to all, must be added, however, constant but unprovocative vigilance, lest unrestricted association with the peoples of the world should enable the very few who have been definitely pronounced by the Master as injurious to the body of the Cause, to make a breach in the Movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bahá’í Administration] Reference

Sadder still is the fact that incriminating facts proved unprovocative to over half the voting public throughout his first disaestrous term).    From Wordnik.com.  [American Coastopia!] Reference

In it, the House of Justice asserted, in unprovocative but uncompromising terms, Bahá’í confidence in the advent of international peace as the next stage in the evolution of society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Century of Light] Reference

If someone to whom you are submitting asks for something different, for heaven’s sake, give it to her; if, as is usually the case, you just don’t know, keep the presentation unprovocative so that your writing may shine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Manuscript formatting 101, part V: beauty and other judgment calls that reside in the eye of the beholder] Reference

Which is to say: if an agent to whom you are submitting asks for something different, for heaven’s sake, give it to her; if, as is usually the case, you just don’t know, keep the presentation unprovocative so that your writing may shine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » How to format a book manuscript properly, part V: beauty is not the only thing that’s in the eye of the beholder] Reference

Which is to say: if an agent to whom you are submitting asks for something different, for heaven’s sake, give it to her; if, as is almost always the case, you just don’t know, keep the presentation unprovocative and professional so that your writing may shine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author! Author! » 2010 » February] Reference

Emperor’s motives, and deliberately assuming a meek and unprovocative tone, had, after expatiating on the sufferings He had endured, addressed him the following words: “Two statements graciously uttered by the king of the age have reached the ears of these wronged ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promised Day Is Come] Reference

A conscious attitude of gentle condescension and superiority towards them -- an attitude not inconsistent with a stronger feeling, nor altogether unprovocative of it; yet this evening they found themselves impressed with something more than an equality in the men who had amused and interested them, and they were perhaps a little more critical and doubtful of their own power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snow-Bound at Eagle's] Reference

No one could accuse him of being unprovocative.    From Wordnik.com.  [quick note on the googlebar - Anil Dash] Reference

But this was not the end of appeasement, as Chamberlain explained in a letter to his sister about the guarantee: "It was unprovocative in tone, but firm, clear but stressing the point (perceived alone by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Lutchester's manner was mild and unprovocative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pawns Count] Reference

His ability to inspire in women of all ages confidence that they possessed spiritual and intellectual capacities fully equal to those of men, His unprovocative but clear demonstration of the meaning of Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings on racial oneness by welcoming black as well as white guests at His own dinner table and the tables of His prominent hostesses, and His insistence on the overriding importance of unity in all aspects of Bahá’í endeavour — such demonstrations of the way in which the spiritual and practical aspects of life must interact threw open for the believers windows on a new world of possibilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Century of Light] Reference

As unprovocative as unpretentious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891] Reference

No opportunity, in view of the necessity of insuring the harmonious development of the Faith, should be ignored, which its potential enemies, whether ecclesiastical or otherwise, may offer, to set forth, in a restrained and unprovocative language, its aims and tenets, to defend its interests, to proclaim its universality, to assert the supernatural, the supra-national and non-political character of its institutions, and its acceptance of the divine origin of the Faiths which have preceded it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citadel of Faith] Reference