provocateur

1 In the days after Donald Trump’s presidential election in 2016, a blogger discovers her boyfriend has been secretly living a second life online as a right-wing provocateur.

2 Enter Vince Staples, a Long Beach rapper and a leader of a new class of talented provocateurs; his understanding of nostalgia is a little more practical.

3 His friends were legion, an endless roll call of the geniuses, provocateurs and poseurs who gave the decade its distinctive cultural tang.

4 French provocateur Bruno Dumont returns with a challenging mix of spiritualism and psychopathy.

5 Candace Owens, the 33-year-old conservative activist, talk show host and provocateur, has lurked around the margins of Ye’s stardom for a few years now.

6 He could, but first he wanted to make sure we were on the same page: The word “provocateur” was not a pejorative to him, but instead, a higher calling.

7 “You want to be a provocateur,” Mr. Roth said.

8 Yet her songs also offered comfort, nurturing and righteousness; she was an idealist, not a provocateur.

9 Illness, death, war: all is fair game for a motor-mouthed provocateur whose onslaught of outrage draws his audience—aghast but spellbound—into an “alluring abyss”.

10 The filmmaker, Chris Bell, wants to be seen as a Michael Moore-style provocateur as he examines why Americans take far too many prescription drugs.

11 A perennial provocateur with reliably adolescent interests, the filmmaker Harmony Korine does not make life easy for his apologists.

12 No matter what the topic, readers value him as both a provocateur and a trusted guide to new territory.

13 But, over the years, the Upper East Side has had its share of art-dealer provocateurs, and the current exhibition at Nolan attempts to pay homage to four.

14 Patrick J. Buchanan is a merry troglodyte, a naughty provocateur.

15 “I think that being a provocateur, in the good sense, means to challenge the status quo — and the status quo changes all the time,” Guadagnino said.

16 It started, she writes, when she noticed the provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos riffing on the famous first line of “Pride and Prejudice,” turning it into a dig at “ugly” feminists.

17 But it would have been cannier of Barnes to make her a genuinely convincing provocateur.

18 Doja Cat, a spitfire rapper and internet provocateur, won pop duo/group performance for her hit “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA.

19 He’s a particularly modern variety of monster: a smug, vain provocateur and throbbing ball of insecurity who has adopted performative wokeness as a personal brand and a cudgel — Frasier Crane without the style or grace.

20 By comparison, he said, a provocateur like Michael Moore is tantamount to an opinion page writer.

1 破坏分子

destruction

2 奸细

rat fifth columnist split stooge lurcher geepo feeler

3 密探

gum-foot plant spy missionary beagle emissary feeler fink gumshoe tec nark

4 内奸

betrayer

5 煽动者

promoter feeder mover instigate incendiary stirrer demagogue rabble-rouser abetter setter-on