provocativeness

Till they met, the movement, the provocativeness was all on Lady Desdemona's side, Finn standing erect and still as graven bronze.

It tinged her words and looks with a provocativeness, a challenge, a consciousness of feminine power formerly foreign to them.

What counts is not the provocativeness but that we lift our gaze, determined to see, not just to look for the comforting familiar.

She used all her physical equipment with unconscious provocativeness, except her eyes, which were blankly distant.