Sentences with phrase «bogeyman from»

In the end, the boy whom he confronts cleverly outwits him, ousting the Bogeyman from his room.

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Now I'll brace myself for letters from ardent free marketeers who will instruct me that consumerism is nothing but a bogeyman invented by the enemies of capitalism.

Should a believer ever conclude that natural forces are inadequate to produce some phenomenon in the natural world, the bogeymen is poised to spring from the shadows.

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.

In 2014 we met quite a few such characters in arthouse oddities and studio blockbusters alike, ranging from heroes to villains, comic relief sidekicks to horrifying bogeymen.

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.

Captain Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) and his band of space cowboys (including Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Gina Torres and Adam Baldwin) while shielding a fugitive girl from the The Alliance (represented by Chiwetel Ejiofor's ruthless agent), uncover an ages - old conspiracy involving the deadliest bogeymen in the universe, the Reavers.

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.

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.

He's not an amorphous bogeyman ready to leap from the shadows, but a piece of teenage folklore that by all rights shouldn't exist, brought to murderous life by overactive imaginations.

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).

Each has had its own bogeymen — from «inadequate funding» to «unfunded mandates,» from «anything - goes» curricula to «lack of choice» in schools, from «bad teachers» to over-testing.

So far, I've introduced Red Pyramid, Bogeyman, Valtiel, Alessa Gillespie (from Origins, specifically), Alex, Elle, Wheeler, Bubble - Head Nurse (SH2), Faceless Nurse (Origins), Arcade Nurse (Arcade), White Hunter (Silent Hill Zero comic book), James, Maria, and a second Red Pyramid (named Rusty to differentiate).

How are the economic difficulties resulting from chasing the CO2 bogeyman going to kill millions of people?

As heat waves move across the U.S. from the northeast to the southwest and in much of western Europe, climate alarmists are responding predictably by blaming hot temperatures not on true meteorological causes but on the nebulous bogeyman of «climate change.»

Cancer has always been, and remains, the ultimate bogeyman of environmentalism, a fixation that reflects how the environmental movement arose from our 1950s fear of nuclear weapons and the carcinogenic radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing.

So much for telling us where the bogeyman lives — apart from suggesting that he only lives in the past.

That mission is done a great disservice by scaremongering headlines from Bloomberg and sound bites from Kent Zimmerman saying that the bogeyman comes in the shape of LPOs.

Interestingly, The Bar Standards Board appears to have invented a good old fashioned bogeyman to head criticism off at the pass with this statement — taken from Neil Rose's report: