Sentences with phrase «purpose bogeyman»

What about the C - section rate, the all purpose bogeyman constantly used by natural childbirth advocates to scare women about obstetric care?

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.

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.

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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.