Sentences with phrase «provocative act of»

Either way, it's a poignant, provocative act of sabotage.

Not exact matches

To build a mosque adjacent to the site where 3,000 people were murdered in the name of Islam is a provocative political act... and will be stopped.

Margaret Beckett described the test - which is in defiance of UN security council resolutions - as a «highly irresponsible and provocative act».

Alhaji Bashiru Nii Narh Alema, Constituency Chairman, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at a reconciliation meeting on Thursday with all the executives, appealed to both the Member of Parliament, Nii Armah Ashietey and Dr Zanetor Agyemang Rawlings not to engage in any provocative acts that would divide the supporters.

The threat of compulsory redundancy given to hundreds of benefits staff today (6) is a «reckless and provocative» act, the Public and Commercial Services union says.

Reducing mandated spending though is a politically tricky balancing act for a state that doesn't have a lot of money and a governor who has gone to pains to not seek new tax increases while at the same time has a very active labor movement opposed to more provocative changes.

Amassing NDC supporters outside of the NPP Flagbearer's house is part of a broad range of calculated, violent, and provocative acts designed to bait the NPP into responding in similar fashion.

Amassing NDC supporters outside of the NPP Flagbearer's house and in an attempt to enter the house is all part of a broad range of calculated, violent, and provocative acts designed to bait the NPP into responding in similar fashion.

All of this does not mean that the cougar isn't naturally attractive, they act and attempt to appear more provocative.

In internet speak, trolling is defined as the act of creating a scene on any thread or post by deliberately posting an offensive or provocative comment.

Plausibly acted, if implausibly directed by Craig Zobel (Great World Of Sound), the credulity of this provocative scenario would snap had it not actually happened more than 70 times across 30 US stateOf Sound), the credulity of this provocative scenario would snap had it not actually happened more than 70 times across 30 US stateof this provocative scenario would snap had it not actually happened more than 70 times across 30 US states.

While Unsolved isn't quite as slick and incisive as that FX series [American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson], it is an absorbing, provocative, and extraordinarily well - acted work of television that takes a narrative approach just novel enough to make you feel like you're seeing these long - cold cases through fresh eyes.

But where Natural Born Killers is interesting, well - acted and provocative, The Doom Generation is just flat out nasty, eye - rollingly boring and SO badly acted I actually kept getting up to go to the bathroom just because peeing was more engaging a phenomenon than sitting in front of this train wreck of a movie.

It's Got: Fine acting, a provocative script, and the sort of uncomfortable ambiguities that prompt each of us to confront the fascist, or the collaborator, in ourselves

Presiding over a motley, talented assembly is Helen Mirren as Prospera, the former duchess of Milan and Ms. Taymor's most provocative and persuasive act of revision.

Moonlight (2016) is both a poetic and provocative portrait of a young black child, the sensitive, bullied son of a crack - addict single mom in a tough Miami neighborhood, presented through three acts of his life from childhood to adulthood.

The script is overly complicated, stirring in characters who appear without introduction, and a little repetitive in the second act, but it seems churlish to complain that such a provocative, covertly - made portrait of the Iranian government as a brutally repressive regime could «use a little cutting.»

WAVEMAKER AWARD (GRAND PRIZE) Sable Mire (USA 2015), directed by Bogui Adjorlolo and Isaac Pauls JURY STATEMENT: For its ambitious portrait of familial relationships infused with dramatic tension, stylish cinematography, strong acting performances, and a provocative ending.

Apart from being a master class in acting, the film is also one of the most haunting and provocative portrayals of abuse in recent memory.

Get Out turns out to be more fun, and more provocative, than it is scary, at least in the traditional midnight - movie sense: The film works so well as a gauntlet of social horror that Peele almost didn't need the more traditional thriller elements he introduces in the third act, when a carefully calibrated build in just - because - you're - paranoid dread gives way to some disappointingly conventional survival games.

The performers at the Cabaret Voltaire, he says, were «intentionally going for something primitive,» a provocative act in response to the tensions of a world at war.

They each start with a provocative «original» that can be manipulated or modified through combinations of hand - made and technological acts, and their investigations speak to the possibilities or limits of such changes.

That means, in Wolfson's case, highly provocative video and sculptural installations depicting acts of mayhem and depravity.

Pitched between depicted action and the act of painting - paint's illusory potential and its materiality - Furnas entwines history with art history in provocative combinations of narrative and form.

Instead of presenting an art endeavoring to reveal its contents to viewers with the least amount of interference, The Thing and the Thing - in - Itself features works that act out the limits of human understanding as they create mysteries, pose conundrums, and leave viewers with provocative questions.

Eyes, cameras, film, developing trays, and the other integral components of the photographic process are the subjects of Anne Collier's art, which turns the act of photography inward on itself, asking provocative questions about why, by whom, and for whom pictures are taken.

The idea was that the viewer would then catch sight of their own reflected image standing in the space of the mirror painting and caught in the act of looking at this provocative nude.

In these dystopic scenes, new civilizations are imagined with inhabitants who participate in a range of provocative, sexual, and often humorous acts.

With the title reminiscent of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, the provocative piece uses silhouetted figures to portray slavery - era violence; white masters can be seen performing sex acts on black servants while other characters grope and defecate on each other.

These are provocative, labour - intensive works of art that remind us that an old book is not only a reliquary of outdated knowledge, but an ever - evolving act of knowledge - transmission that is not only found in written form, but also found in the very expression of life itself.

Criminal Law: Provocation R. v. Bouchard, 2013 ONCA 791 (35690) Judgment rendered Oct. 16, 2014 Cromwell J. — «We agree with [the] majority of [the C.A.], that the trial judge's instructions may well have led the jury to understand that the deceased's allegedly provocative acts and the respondent's reaction to them had relevance to the mens rea issue only if they met the narrow legal definition of provocation in s. 232 of the Criminal Code and that this constituted misdirection».

Further, expert psychiatric evidence obtained by Defence lawyer Joseph Neuberger demonstrated that the complainant was acting in a highly provocative manner prior to and during her recording of the private discussion in an attempt to provoke a confrontation for the purposes of her laying charges.

Defence lawyer Joseph Neuberger extensively cross-examined the complainant establishing additional facts that supported the defence theory that the complainant did not intend to interview for a cleaning job but in fact while in the home, the complainant acted in a sexually provocative manner and eventually proposition A.E. Joseph Neuberger established significant inconsistencies in cross-examination of the complainant and slowly gained crucial admissions from the complainant about acting sexually provocatively and after having told A.E. that she «hated cleaning» that she then told A.E. that «there were other ways for her to make money».

A study by Edwards et al27 examined teenagers with ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), which is defined by the presence of markedly defiant, disobedient, provocative behaviour and by the absence of more severe dissocial or aggressive acts that violate the law or the rights of others.