In that sense, he didn't sit still. He tried in various ways to stimulate and even provoke the department.

I won't try to describe the various ways I tried to get the cake plate back to her without being confronted with a request for my judgment of her cake. Suffice to say that her well-intentioned favor interfered with my own plans.

It's highly suggestive in various ways.

Leon is connected to our community in ways that very few elected officials are. He will leave a sense of fairness and a vision that encourages all of us to find the good in each other and build up on that, as opposed to what divides us.

Provoke/ The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.'