You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.
Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.
Setting aside moral considerations, those who flirt with hate speech against Muslims should realize they are playing directly into the hands of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. The terrorists' explicit hope has been to try to provoke a clash of civilizations - telling Muslims that the United States is at war with them and their religion.
I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.
The bottom line is that sometimes the little things I do on the pitch provoke exaggerated reactions.
My role is to take the player to his limits, to provoke him, to annoy him against me, because in this nervousness is the will to improve.
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got.
The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
