Sentence examples for bogeyman of a from inspiring English sources

"Sam & Cat," a new series on Nickelodeon, was an opportunity to confront this neon bogeyman of a genre.

Without the bogeyman of a Great Satan and the militant dream of regional hegemony, a Persian Parliament, overwhelmed with the people's demands, would find much better things than enriched uranium to spend the nation's money on.

In Queen's Park, the area of west London where Emwazi spent much of his youth, those who knew his family said they did not recognise him as the black-clad bogeyman of a global jihad.

Many of those present appeared to be playing a character they'd dreamt up for themselves over the summer months - art girl, halls spiv, bogeyman of a future NUS lad culture summit - despite not really knowing exactly how that character should behave.

The ordering of the murder was blamed on the bogeyman of the story, a military intelligence officer called Major Roberto D'Aubuisson who had, conveniently for Washington, recently left the army.

The next zag came with McCarthyism, as the bogeyman of Communism embodied a lot of unspoken fears about the undercurrents of incipient social change.

The mother-of-a-school-shooter tale is a kind of early-aughts bogeyman.

He became a household name, a bogeyman of the western world.

The fact that both parties are happy to portray China as the bogeyman of globalisation creates an impression of uniform hostility.

Sure, Americans fear socialism, but socialism is a vague bogeyman of the past that hasn't had a concrete face in decades.

FOR many, Arnold Schoenberg remains the bogeyman of 20th-century music, a kind of impenetrable conundrum.