Sentences with word «bogeyman»

But James gave Royce's idealism a pragmatic twist by pushing Royce to ask not what the source of thought is — the old bogeyman of epistemology — but what purpose thought serves.

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

It's just become a kind of bogeyman for people.

The debt bogeyman who haunted him in Ottawa appears to have followed him home.

You and I read books by Bernstein and such, and we realize that the usual historical summarization has been infected with bogeyman assumptions generated by progressives and Marxists.

There's a new bogeyman lurking in the closet, and this one isn't imaginary.

At halftime, then, UMBC's 37 - 35 advantage appeared to have the Retrievers on track to exorcise a 10 - year old bogeyman.

There are Orwellian elements, moments that play like scenes from Second World War resistance movies, traces of Robin Hood and sequences involving succubus - like bogeymen in the sewers that would more normally belong in a horror picture.

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That menace is a favorite bogeyman for deficit hawks in Congress.

Should you utter the title The Babadook out loud, you may be in danger of summoning an Australian bogeyman from its hiding place — and woe betide those who doubt its existence.

The Babadook takes the form of a somewhat conventional bogeyman story, but it has much more on its mind.

And while we're at it, we should tackle the other bogeyman of stock selection — a bias towards a concentrated portfolio, which further undermines the very idea of a diversified portfolio.

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

There's no more bogeymen.»

Automation is the all - purpose bogeyman of today's workforce: millions of jobs could be taken over by machines in the next few years, experts say, and the big question is what to do about all the humans left behind.

Defenders of the education status quo see a corporatist bogeyman behind not only teacher quality reform, but the entire North American school reform movement.

He's got the scoop on what it means to do his job, such as the fact that bogeymen don't say boo.

If Hitler wasn't a Christian, why was he so obsessed with eliminating Jews, the perpetual Christian bogeymen?

These are the words of a professional — not some bitter back - bedroom expert whinging about his own side's perpetual failure and looking for the most convenient bogeyman.

Thanks to its humane response to the crisis, Suncor will be very hard to cram back into the caricature of a Big Oil bogeyman.

Interestingly, many of the traditional bogeymen flagged by education school critics were not much in evidence.

NEW YORK, Feb 9 - The inflation bogeyman has reared its ugly head and sent U.S. stock investors racing for the hills in recent days.

Providing a mentally disturbed villain of the generic variety and the dangers of an all - powerful web of technology, I.T. gives us two, obvious bogeymen for the price of one, pretty dumb movie.

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.»

Mike Formento, executive director of the Glen Ellyn Chamber of Commerce urges board members to deny the project that comes with a «benzene bogeyman.»

Lots of folks have been having some good, clean fun diving into the details of the recent phone exchange between Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Ian Murphy, a blogger posing as Tea Party financier and liberal bogeyman David Koch.

I suppose the real bogeyman of internet - driven marketing is that it will make so many location - specific, but functionally redundant jobs (i.e. pluggers, payola - whores) unnecessary.

The chief bogeyman keeping them awake at night is shadow chancellor Ed Balls.

Democrats say they have their own bogeyman in President Trump to use against Republicans, which they think will be more effective.

But to see the optimists» point, look to what has happened in the US, traditionally the global climate bogeyman.

There's an official Konami Style Silent Hill: Homecoming Bogeyman resin statue up for pre-order in Japan (which is a little little strange considering the Homecoming game was never published in that region.)

There's an official Konami Style Silent Hill: Homecoming Bogeyman resin statue up for pre-order in Japan (which is a little little strange considering the Homecoming game was never published in that region.)

Silent Hill Homecoming is greatly inspired by the 2006 film; featuring the same Pyramid Head design by Patrick Tatopoulos (called Bogeyman in the game) and the «bobble head» nurses affected by light.

Enviornmental changes have had little role in the great disaters such as Rwanda or the Balkans, stop trying to create the Global Warming Bogeyman as an excuse for criminal governments.

This risk is never going completely away, but instead of the risk being a hypothetical bogeyman, it will become a much more prosaic thing: a successfully managed risk.

In this episode we skip the introductory banter in order to get straight to the conversation with John Suh, CEO of the legal - industry bogeyman, LegalZoom.

But then again, every era has had its economic bogeyman.

He's aided in this ambition by those perpetual bogeymen, the Templars, in this film engaged in an apparently endless war with the group from whom Cal is descended, the Assassins.

This leads him through a litany of bogeymen very much like my own.

The climate change denier has become the Left's favourite bogeyman, pursued with all the zeal of a witch hunt in 17th century Salem.