The kid was only reacting "normally," said the judge, though the 16-year-old victim was wearing an unprovocative sweater.
Moreover, Actress Cardinale has to keep herself covered with relatively unprovocative raiment in order to preserve her milky white skin for the corset-and-crinoline atmosphere .
Hero, a stirringly patriotic hymn to China's founding myth, is similarly unprovocative, giving Chinese audiences a past they can be proud of without making them think much.
Neville Chamberlain in guardian.co.uk But this was not the end of appeasement, as Chamberlain explained in a letter to his sister about the guarantee: "It was unprovocative in tone, but firm, clear but stressing the point (perceived alone by the Times) that what we are concerned with is...