Elster, meanwhile, had some provocative comments before the game.

Begun last February, the program has allowed the women to break a few rules of behavior like shouting provocative comments and dancing wildly.

He would not give Menolly the satisfaction of knowing that her provocative comments bothered him at all.

In his later years, his provocative comments often seemed deliberately at odds with official policy.

The frustration, however, might not have been enough to draw so provocative a comment.

Critics say his provocative comments obscure the agency's message.

He admits that those are provocative comments about privacy.

I made the provocative comment that this is a bit like giving sticks of dynamite to a pyromaniac.

I would like to conclude by making two rather provocative comments on the discussion as a whole.

About the most provocative comment anyone made came with a conciliatory tag line.