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1 Spending your careers spouting clichés in interviews is poor training for broadcasting when suddenly you’re expected to say something spontaneous, fresh and provocative.

2 Do you have a particular favourite passage from Beyond Good and Evil that exemplifies Nietzsche’s direct and provocative approach?

3 You will probably be managing behaviors that are highly provocative, and holding these boundaries will test your patience on every level.

4 OK, it may not be sidesplitting, but Blier is at least remaining true to the provocative style of film-making that, during a couple of decades from the mid-70s onwards, made him so feted and bankable.

5 Sometimes something is too provocative or too sexist or too racist, but it will inspire a line of thinking that will help develop an image that is publishable.

6 Over a 16-year career, Mr. Herbert has made provocative and sometimes bizarre music using noises he collects himself, often related to food and the body.

7 But for the most part, Siegel’s “Groucho Marx” is trenchant and provocative.

8 Pivoting off a provocative line by Marianne Moore — “I, too, dislike it.”

9 It is the extremists on the edges who make the clothes that are the most fun to see, and provocative to consider.

10 Sprinkled among this debate, however, were novel and provocative questions about who designs games, who plays games, whether games are art, which viewpoints are represented and what responsibility games have to historical verisimilitude.

11 Within his comfort zone, though, Mr. Koren can be funny, psychologically acute and philosophically provocative.

12 He’s received resistance from some in the Arab world for his provocative subject matter, an echo of pushback he received in his prior life as an activist trying to engage in dialogue with Zionists.

13 The title track from Amanda Shires’s upcoming album is a poetic and provocative torch song enlivened by an electrifying vocal performance.

14 Her approach so far is both empathetic and a little provocative.

15 With that, Mr. Junger has raised one of the most provocative ideas of this campaign season — and accidentally written one of its most intriguing political books.

16 It's this dynamic — at first sexual, later filial — that provides the film with a quiet emotional heft as well as a provocative through line.

17 In one of his provocative works, Ai Weiwei smashes what appears to be a priceless historic vase.

18 The band's co-founder has announced his retirement from one of the most provocative roups in American alternative rock, choosing instead to focus on his solo work.

19 They are illustrating the points raised by Amir Bar-Lev’s subtle and provocative documentary “Happy Valley,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this week.

20 It is in no way challenging or provocative, but it is never dull or obvious.

1 挑逗性

sexy racy voluptuous lascivious raciness

2 煽动

agitation fan stir sow stoke incite agitate foment stir up whip up egg on

3 激起性欲

arouse

4 刺激

exciting electric incentive stimulating fiery irritating stimulant irritant action-packed pinprick charge kick boot trigger belt jar motivation needle excitement bang spur cue yeast ginger encouragement impulse stimulus irritation sting mustard motif scorpion persuasive impetus prod provocation bracing excitation whet inducement goad hypo wallop fillip hotfoot impulsion agitate jangle fire challenge fuel bite prompt cite urge excite motivate hop stimulate gig motive hype provoke goose irritate nudge incite quicken startle pique catalyze rev rasp innervate eroticize adrenalize a kick in the ass a shot in the arm

5 煽动性的

seditious rabble-rousing seditionary demagogic inflammatory incendiary

6 挑逗性的

sexy racy voluptuous lascivious

7 引起性欲的

sexy desirable erotic horny torrid

8 引起争议

provocatively

9 引起…

evocatory evocative

10 刺激性的

excitive warm challenging irritant pungent excitatory stimulative irritative excitant excitory excitative hot incentive inflammatory biting hypodermic stimulant rip-roaring gingery

11 气

gas qi

12 挑衅

provocation aggressive aggressively provocatively provoke offensive defiant in-your-face truculent aggression defiance gage belligerent pick a fight with pick a quarrel with pick a quarrel pick a fight confrontational pique the knives are out stump aggro aggress

13 挑逗的

come-hither

14 激怒的

excited inflammatory irritant provoking wroth wild choleric

15 激怒

excited inflammatory irritant provoking wroth heat passion inflammation irritation rampage aggravation exasperation vexation touch anger provoke irritate aggravate frenzy incense nettle enrage infuriate vex chafe rile roil hector acerbate draw blood lash into a fury put monkey up rough up the wrong way stroke the wrong way down on neck wild choleric provocation cheese needle outrage pique goad exasperate embitter nark freak nag rouse rasp niggle rub the wrong way

16 刺激物

fuel spur stimulus stimulant irritant whet excitant cue prompt sauce irritation goad stimulator instigation stimulative exciter incitation

17 刺激性

excitive warm challenging irritant pungent excitatory stimulative irritative excitant excitory kick excitative hot incentive inflammatory biting hypodermic bite pepper thrill stimulant rip-roaring gingery pungency

18 使人生气

displease

19 挑逗

come-hither advance foreplay tease tantalize

20 性挑逗的

saucy

21 煽动的

inciteful

22 撩人的

naughty sultry kinky slinky

23 引诱

temptation inducement come-on tempt lure entice inveigle

24 引起…的

evocative evocatory

25 挑拨性的

warm provoking

26 挑衅的

salty challenging defiant in-your-face aggressive offensive truculent belligerent confrontational

27 引起争论的

challenge contentious

28 兴奋剂

upper pickup tonic stimulant dope cordial pick-me-up bracer stimulative reviver excitant exhilarant analeptic incitant goofball

29 人生气

displease

30 挑拨

provocation coattrailing stir come between

31 刺激的

sexy spicy tingly fast Sharp refreshing adventurous in-your-face acrid piquant inciteful exalté

32 撩人

naughty sultry kinky slinky provocatively seductiveness