Sentence examples for bogeyman it from inspiring English sources

Far from being a bogeyman, it seems more like an exclusive club of doddering old men with no idea what the fuss is all about.

As the title implies, he thinks militant Islam has become a convenient bogeyman; it serves an ideological purpose, just as (from the viewpoint of a suspicious leftist) an exaggerated Soviet threat sometimes did during the cold war.

And a vintage bogeyman it is, too: the all-powerful internationalist Jew with no organic connection to the soil of nationhood; the embodiment of demonic, wandering, predatory capital; the new uber-Rothschild.

Rather, she says, "this is the brilliant, iconoclastic move of a company to say 'we're powerful and we're going to decide what happens to ITV'".Despite Sir Richard's railing against a familiar bogeyman, it is in fact Mr Murdoch's son, James, BSkyB's chief executive, who decided to pounce.

"Now that it has vanquished the bogeyman, it's gotten so large it's bumping up against the Party".

Nuclear is kind of the bogeyman: It has a bad rep because of high-profile meltdowns, the term "radioactive waste" and the existence of Godzilla.

It's the idea of the bogeyman – be it communism, fundamental Islam, rioters.

That's such a subtle maneuver, but it turned Adam Carolla into a media bogeyman, and it created a ton of meaningless controversy that moved millions of eyeballs to pages that media outlets could monetize.

But compensation culture is a convenient bogeyman, because it allows big business to associate its victims - such as the 3,500 people who die every year in Britain as a result of exposure to asbestos - with scroungers and conmen.

But the White House isn't abandoning the bogeyman as it presses for more powers to turn away asylum-seekers it claims are illegitimate, lock up families long term and quickly deport children.

Even for robustly democratic countries like Brazil, the American bogeyman makes it easier to justify resistance to trade deals and to cosy up to uglier regimes.Now this depressing narrative may change.