Hair and eyes were dark as velvet; her skin was old ivory and rose; and always her lips seemed about to part a little in the faint and provocative smile which lay latent in the depths of her brown eyes.
It is provocative (which is strange) by its modesty.
She had been smiling and twittering and looking sweet and demure or provocative and gay since eight o'clock, when the dinner for the debutantes had begun.
This difference in them is not only irritating to the normal herd; it is also provocative of bitter hostility in those among their contemporaries who are themselves possessed of genius.
Pace and progress pleased him less and less; there was an ostentation, too, about a car which he considered provocative in the prevailing mood of Labour.
The gods had given Irene dark brown eyes and golden hair, that strange combination, provocative of men's glances, which is said to be the mark of a weak character.
The knowledge of something about her conspicuous, doubtful, provocative of insult, as she thought, grievously hurt her delicacy.
Her face was calm now, faintly smiling, a little eager, provocative in its joy of life.
In the smiling tic of Bechterew, for an instance, the muscular contractions are framed into a smile in the absence of any provocative to mirth; in a similar fashion, the sniffing tic brings to mind the inhaling performances of snuff-takers.
And what can be more provocative of scribbling than travel?
Willersley theorised while I thought of the woman and that provocative quality of dash she had displayed.
The guardians of public morals will say we were very bad people; I submit in defence that they are very bad guardians--provocative guardians.
I was treated to an open letter, signed "Junius Secundus," and I replied in provocative terms.
Did this happen to be a knave or some other equally reproachful character, the owner was mulcted to the sum of fivepence; and he must indeed have had a miser's heart who could regret a penalty so provocative of mirth.
The Duke of Tornos is a scoundrel, and you know he is," he returned, looking him straight in the eyes in a provocative way.
Going with master," he announced phlegmatically, and raised his eyes with a glance that was at once provocative and stubborn.
Evidence to this effect had been furnished to the Police Department by the spy andprovocative agent, Azev.
The attitude of the Bolsheviki was grossly unbecoming and provocative of disdain.
As we have already noted, into the ranks of the terrorist Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Bolsheviki spies and provocativeagents wormed their way in large numbers.
All the provocative agents of the Czar could not have contrived anything so serviceable to the reaction.
Much of this agitation was sincere and honest, but no little of it was due to the provocative agents.
At the sound of his step in the garden Elsie looked up, a provocativesmile on her face.
It must have been a Unitarian spirit since he is evidently a one idea wolf," he pursued with a provocative grimace at the stolid Manson who was of that persuasion.
But he was most unwise and provocative in his conduct to the new Sultan, evidently under the belief that he had to deal with the inexperienced youth who had been displaced by Murad six years previously.
It has already been shown that the Empress Catherine was very provocative in her policy and action to Turkey.
He looked at her with the teasing, provocative look of masculine seventeen for feminine thirteen.
It came to me that the creature had regarded my past success in observing this treaty with a kind of provocative resentment.
These operations caused great excitement, and feeling ran high throughout the kingdom, for they were generally regarded as indicative and provocative of a radical change of government.
There was something--I do not quite know what--about her appearance that was provocativeand voluptuous, and which attracted one.
It was the same low, provocative woman's voice that I had heard in my dreams!
The thing that it suggested was quite as embarrassing as its non-standard, emotional, provocative tone.
The belief in the exceptionality and the loneliness of vice is a restraint from it; the belief in its commonness is a demoralizing provocative to it.
This great and constant contrast must give rise to innumerable discrepancies of opinion and of desire, provocative of disagreements, if not of dislikes.
She liked him too well to lose him, and told him so, and was prettily imperious with him, and yet never provocative nor coquettish.
There were times when he felt very badly about it, but a pretty face and a provocativepetticoat could always divert his attention.
In consequence, the attitude of the Government was not so much deliberate desire for war as provocative bluster, of which Bismarck was quick to take advantage.
Since Agadir it is true that France, conscious of the constantly provocative attitude of Germany, had seen the folly of plans for disarmament.
There could be no question but that he had exceeded his orders, and had acted in a grossly provocative and arbitrary manner, calculated to bring about serious trouble.
The bright sunny flow of spirits was gone, likewise the sweet equanimity and caressing, teasing, provocative little ways.
She wasprovocative and, to a degree, mystifying, and the abrupt termination of their talk seemed to leave the way open to other interviews.
Sometimes Allen's remarks on current events struck Harwood by their wisdom: the boy was wholesomely provocative and stimulating.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "provocative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
