Sentences with phrase «scrotum-less hobgoblin»

Buffett has long said that he believes a hobgoblin of corporate failure is an addiction to selling more and shares.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Now from time out of mind people have been pleased to think that witches, hobgoblins, gnomes etc. were deformed, and undeniably every man on seeing a deformed person has at once an inclination to associate this with the notion of moral depravity.

Doctor Martinus said a great deal about witchcraft, about asthma and hobgoblins, how once his mother was pestered so terribly by her neighbor, a witch, that she had to be exceedingly friendly and kind to her in order to appease her.

Father Hans thought exactly the same way, and so did the miners in Mansfeld, who, far away from the light of day, were even more exposed to the artifices of the infernal powers — spirits, demons and hobgoblins — in the darkness of their mineshafts.

We know from rueful experience that federal regulation can be at once ineffective and economically damaging, that the government's ability to «fine - tune» the economy has been highly exaggerated, and that the tendency of welfare spending to create conditions of dependency is more than a hobgoblin of timid or reactionary minds.

Some few survived as djinns or evil spirits, some were translated into hobgoblins, fairies, «little people.»

Cooking them in batches ensures everyone gets them while they are oozing, adding to the allure for the devilish hobgoblins in your crowd.

Then Spida made me go «meh», then not miss the hair - obsessed one, and now I'm actually quite pleased hobgoblin's not on the roster.

As consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, so, too, does it sustain the steadfast soul.

(Remember, a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.)

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, «A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...» but he didn't have this Stephen Sprouse skirt.

Bobby plays the hobgoblin and Bernadette plays the Snow Queen.

While a scrotum-less hobgoblin will likely get laid before it ever sees the light of day,...

He's made other great films, but if a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, Francis Ford Coppola's brain is as big as they get.

This film is full of goblins, hobgoblins, ogres, sprites, elves, piskies, gryphons, brownies and boggarts, all beautifully animated from Tony DiTerlizzi's wonderful drawings.

An overindulgence in coarse language exposing profanity as the hobgoblins of small minds and unimaginative scripts.

In «Troll,» the creature starts taking over an apartment building and transforming the tenants into hobgoblins.

The resentment harbored by the younger Bush isn't directed against Nixon's hobgoblin, the «East Coast elite,» but mostly at the elite's closest representative, his own father.

Arguments that «a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds» are to no avail in Washington state, where the rescoring of last spring's writing test will penalize students who used writing conventions inconsistently.

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of small minds; yet the contrast between allowing taxpayer support of private schools, which are neither accountable nor transparent to the public, and imposing the most stringent reporting and accountability standards on all public schools should alarm the fair - minded.

Travel with me back to the infancy of the current legislative session, when the most hidebound, most intransigent, most easily vilified political hobgoblin on the political scene was the teachers union.

When we first started tooling around town, one staff member complained about «scoffing and derision from three baseball - cap - wearing workmen in their Ford pickup,» and another described it as having «hobgoblin exterior styling.

And the cover blurb: Since Bryanna grows up in Scotland, she is familiar with hobgoblins, selkies and kelpies from the tales of her mother country.

A series of vertical cliffs and dolerite columns stand like huge, isolated hobgoblins of nature 120 metres above the valley floor.

A good place for Hobgoblins is the Lost Sector by Artifact's Edge.

Vex Hobgoblins are bad enough.

When the Taken King makes them wibbly wobbly goths, Hobgoblins become so much worse.

So I'll let Ralph Waldo Emerson offer my final words here: «A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.»

For the MSU era, observations are consistent (hobgoblins and all) at the low end with IPCC theory.

As the very perceptive H.L. Mencken noted, «The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.»

So the PETM, like the atmosphere of Venus or a lot of other really «scary» hobgoblins that are presented to frighten the unwitting public, have nothing to do with the reality of AGW.

Also remember, that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

H.L. Mencken also was prophetic in his statements «The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary» and «The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.»

«The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.»

The work up Hobgoblins of GM foods and pesticides / herbicides, and power - lines causing causing cancers.

H.L.Mencken said, «The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.»

Most climate hobgoblins in Canada come through the Federal Government, particularly Environment Canada (EC) with the singular objective of proving the hypothesis that human production of CO2 is causing global warming.

Plus, he's basically a scaredy - cat, who sees hobgoblins, bogeymen and (yes) even zombies around every corner, all working against his vision of a socially just world.

As for money coming from industry (Dr mann's Big Oil hobgoblin) or private individuals (here is where the Koch brothers get mentioned), you should check yourself.

The «good fight» of course is whatever happens to be the latest hobgoblin seizing the collective mind of the fashionably frightened.

Some observers link it to the paranoid fantasy called the New World Order, a staple of political talk radio (and a hobgoblin I more»

I usually don't read Atomski — but then a «foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.»

The public is bombarded daily with «science» (usually medical or nutritional) that is utter rubbish, and this is compounded by scares of varying hobgoblins (lipid theory, mad cow disease, bird flu, etc.) Vapid journalists exacerbate the problem by breathlessly reporting on impending doom (AGW will bring malaria northward.

It's all only a model - generated hobgoblin.

I don't like it that Trenberth can't account for the missing heat any more than he does, but 1st Law triumphs over energy - destroying hobgoblins every time.

There has been, in the last 12 hours or so, a significant upsurge in the activities of the warmist hobgoblins that usually swarm around SkS.

But Dr. Beckmann was the first to bring this hokum to my attention, and he had it tagged from the beginning as one of Mencken's «endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary» being exploited by the politicians «to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety).»

And scientists are susceptible to a major hobgoblin of the legal industry, namely, an emotional attachment to your position.