Sentences with phrase «as bogeyman»

He stands to lose a lot in a spontaneously cooling world, where CO2 is no longer perceived as a bogeyman.

Struggle for your final gasps of air as the Bogeyman smashes everything in his path with his murderous hammer.

Do the policymakers have to focus on a villain, in this case, teachers and unions as the bogeyman?

• Dead tree as bogeyman — limbs outstretched, shrouded in Spanish moss signaling a fatal turn - off in The Gingerbread Man...

There's fun to be had in spotting Udo Kier, Ken Foree, and Brad Dourif in cameo roles (meanwhile, Zombie's standard company returns, his wife Sheri Moon turning in a wonderful performance as our bogeyman's stripper mommy), but it's distracting as well, almost too much like a rib - chucker (think The Howling — and sure enough, there's Dee Wallace as the adoptive mother of hero girl Laurie (Scout Taylor - Compton, also attached to an upcoming April Fool's Day remake)-RRB- that only ever really worked when John Landis gave it a shot with An American Werewolf in London.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has made President Trump the target of his re-election campaign, and it's clear why: Using Trump as a bogeyman is easier than running against his actual...

He dismisses Cuomo's charges of ultra-conservatism as the governor's attempt to paint him as the bogeyman.

In 2006 and again in 2008, House and Senate Democratic candidate effectively used George W. Bush as the bogeyman who scared their base into action.

And while Democrats will look to tie Trump to Flanagan and his fellow Senate Republicans, the GOP is again using Mayor de Blasio as a bogeyman outside New York City, even as the mayor said that unlike in 2014, he will not be involved in this year's races.

On a Lefty - oriented site, I figured it was a liberal group using him as a bogeyman to raise money.

But on May Day today's politician's again propped up his name as a bogeyman and this time «dumped him in the drink» in order to use the notoriety they gave him as a tool for political gain.

Not that long ago, cord - cutting was seen by many in the pay - TV and cable industry as a bogeyman, a spooky ghost dreamed up based on fringe behavior by a small number of millennials and other malcontents.

Childress holds up the military and international banks as bogeymen but then does little with these themes the rest of the novel.

Not exact matches

To fall victim to such bogeymen comes across as undoubtedly more defensible than succumbing to weak or inept opponents.

For instance, James Comey, who heads the Federal Bureau of Investigation (and who is often painted as an encryption bogeyman), told the Senate last year that «it is important for our global economy and our national security to have strong encryption standards.»

If, as I suspect, he lays a bit too much of the blame for our ills at the feet of that all - purpose bogeyman, capitalism, the story he tells is nevertheless a sobering and instructive one.

Wars by U.S. forces or by proxies — resulting in the death of 50,000 Iraqi civilians, 2 million Vietnamese, 200,000 Guatemalan peasants — don't make a dent in our self - image as long as we make «religious violence» the bogeyman.

I used to scoff at the idea of a single entity that was in the evil business, thinking those people weak of mind as to need one bogeyman to distract from their own weaknesses.

He'd run his course as a convenient bogeyman, and Obama wants a second term.

It appears to me that Professor Dawkins is presented as some kind of «bogeyman» to frighten those with faith.

As long as «hate» remains the principal bogeyman in our moral imagination, Mill's harm principle is uselesAs long as «hate» remains the principal bogeyman in our moral imagination, Mill's harm principle is uselesas «hate» remains the principal bogeyman in our moral imagination, Mill's harm principle is useless.

They are the latest bogeyman for so many clubs who are either trying to beat them or to position themselves as closest contender.

One reporter wrote that Taylor was «the big bad bogeyman of the brewing business» who lacked the sense and grace to «realize that you can do many things to an Englishman — raise his taxes, heft shop prices, even steal his wife — just so long as you don't interfere with his beer.»

«So I think «the media» is an easy bogeyman, every bit as much as saying that Connecticut's dominance is the reason.

Bogeyman Noun An imaginary evil spirit used to frighten children - A person or thing widely regarded as an object of fear There was once a story that was told all across world.

As they got older, the soft glow provided extra comfort and kept the Bogeyman at bay.

[25] In turn the election was cast by Murphy as a battle of New York City interests against those of Hudson Valley, with de Blasio portrayed as something of a «bogeyman» according to the Journal News.

The Dems say they will seek to use Mercer, who they expect to help pump millions of dollars into the 2018 New York gubernatorial, congressional and state legislative races through personal and Super PAC donations, as a «bogeyman» in heavily blue New York.

Clarke accused Nigel Farage and UKIP of scare tactics on immigration in order to win public support, warning the audience against such fringe parties — «fringe candidates who threaten you with a bogeyman dressed as a Romanian».

It now exists primarily as a none - too - scary bogeyman for Democrats accustomed to rolling up double - digit victories in statewide races.

It has been everyone's favourite quantum bogeyman ever since Einstein derided it as «spooky action at a distance ``.

Hell, Raymond Briggs» «Fungus the Bogeyman» did a better job than this film does in playing around with ideas of death and decay, and holding the Bogey world up as a mirror to our own absurdities!

It's likely that his stories would have once again drawn Myers out of hiding, for as Doyle himself said as a kid, «You can't kill the bogeyman.»

By its very existence it begs the question of whether this (or the upcoming Kevin Costner vehicle Dragonfly) would even have been considered if not for the success of the supposedly non-influential The Blair Witch Project: a mainstream horror film that flies in the face of conventional genre wisdom (at least since The Exorcist) in refraining from gore as steadfastly as it refuses to show its bogeyman.

Inserting themselves into the story as unkind spoiler - avatars in the piece (a gay, white couple acts as Quinceañera's bogeymen)-- the set for their tasteful duplex serves as Glatzer / Westmoreland's real - life digs — is as thorny a po - mo entanglement as these two otherwise successful guys interpolating themselves in their neighbour's lives, homes, and rituals with movie cameras and an evangelical mission.

The film opens in 1943, with title cards that attempt to contextualize communism in the 1940s for generations that grew up with the word as a shadowy bogeyman.

That the cartoon manages to both viciously lampoon Hitler (whose portrayal here complicated my childhood perception of him as a demonic historical bogeyman) and also make him something of a sympathetic protagonist is a tribute to the oft - unsung talents of director Bob Clampett, whose every hand - drawn frame is a virtuoso, stand - alone grotesque.

Even down to Eric Roberts, in a fascinating five - minute turn as the doomed Wolfmann: part Germanic bogeyman, part pathetic victim of a deep betrayal, part mythological figure.

Josh Brolin's Lt. Det. Christian «Bigfoot» Bjornsen emerges as another product of bogeyman / mythological figure: the stoic representative of law and order who, at one point, plays a mean trick on Doc by making him think Shasta's been found dead, while at another he's seen as henpecked and small as his wife (Delaina Mitchell) berates Doc for the shrink bills he's inspired.

There's a grown - up story about a stash of stolen money, but Laughton's masterstroke is to ignore that and present the human monster from the children's point of view, as a remorseless bogeyman.

The ghosts of James Whale, Maya Deren and Peter Weir smoke a blunt as Griffen becomes a sort of spirit - hero in a town worm - squirming with self - laceration, incest, S&M, and the killer bogeyman of failing machismo.

«DeVos has taken over as Senate Democrats» top online bogeyman» [and lead fundraiser], reports Politico ow.ly / mf1930cIveH

Instead of simply reflecting on the heroism of teachers and school leaders such as Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung (who was slain while protecting a child from the murderous rampage of Adam Lanza), Ravitch decided to spend much of the piece defending tradtitionalist thinking, as well as arguing against Nutmeg State Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform efforts (including the expansion of charter schools, Ravitch's bogeyman of late).

«Ravitch decided to spend much of the piece defending traditionalist thinking, as well as arguing against Nutmeg State Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform efforts (including the expansion of charter schools, Ravitch» s bogeyman of late).»

So here's hoping your family's Halloween is as much fun as that of the bogeyman, a house full of spooks, four frolicking ghosts, Gilbert and his sister Lola, and John Pig.

The effectiveness of this campaign is still with us today, as all the small oil companies» abuses go uncommented on while «Standard Oil» is the bogeyman lurking in the closet of antitrust conversations.

As the agents dig into their fallen comrade's circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets that seem to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, who is either a Soviet bogeyman or the most dangerous man in the world.

The company is seen by many as a tax - avoiding bogeyman that is destroying not only publishers and wholesalers but independent bookstores in particular and Main Street in general, and while there are major economic forces at work here that would probably lead to the same conclusion without Amazon at the head of march, Amazon has to realize that it should do everything possible to avoid being seen as the online version of Walmart.

As they lament the tragic death of low - and mid-level gaming and blame gamers for not meeting their insane expectations, they're erecting a bogeyman to place the blame somewhere — anywhere — besides where it belongs: on themselves and their Hollywood-esque reliance on smash hits to make any money.

Osgemeos's comic character with a yellow face, painted on top of a tableau of portraits with partially hidden physiognomies, looked like a funny bogeyman rather than the agent of any particular menace, and as such provided commentary on how terrorism is being exaggerated for political gain.