Sentences with phrase «real bogeyman»

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.

«Democrats are salivating at the possibility and will have no problem tying (GOP candidates) to this very real bogeyman,» the Dem insider said.

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Yep, the * idea * of a god (bogeyman) is quite effective in controlling folks... that doesn't mean that it is real.

So you have no problems with upstate TEAPub Senators making DeBlasio and NYC into the bogeyman at campaign time while taking huge piles of NY City real estate / developer money to assure they screw over renters in the five boroughs?

But SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon suggested he needed to «put the bogeyman to one side» to enable people to «debate these issues for real and in substance».

The daddy of all slasher movies, its formula has been mercilessly preyed upon by countless 1980s slice - and - dice imitations («Friday the 13th», «A Nightmare on Elm Street» etc.), fondly dissected by 1990 postmodern spoofs («Scream», «Scary Movie»)-- and of course its franchise of (largely inferior) sequels shows that that the bogeyman is still very real, with «Halloween 9» due for release next year.

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.

«It is becoming clearer all the time that the current UTLA leadership isn't threatened by charter schools or other bogeymen — they're actually threatened by the notion that parents in these communities, whose kids have gotten a crappy deal for a generation or more, should have any real power to do something about it.»

I would that people were afraid of this real threat rather than living in fear that a bogeyman with bogey - weapons of mass destruction is going to get us.

In an Orwellian exercise in doublespeak, the authors of the text, including well - known proponents of abortion and population control like the UN's Jeffrey Sachs, make an attempt to conflate the bogeyman of extreme anthropogenic global warming with the very real problem of environmental pollution.

The «failure of the Right's bogeymen'to «create hysteria» I attribute to the failures of the global warming fraternity to present us (i.e. the general public) with a coherent, plausible and scientifically valid hypothesis that is robust and has real value.