The word "hobgoblin" is usable in written English and is well written.
It can be used in contexts related to folklore, fantasy, or metaphorically to describe a source of fear or anxiety. Example: "The hobgoblin of doubt crept into her mind as she prepared for the big presentation." Alternatives include "goblin" or "spirit."
IF CONSISTENCY is the hobgoblin of little minds, no one can now accuse America's judiciary of being small minded.
Health officials said displaying calorie counts was meant to address what is widely regarded as a nationwide epidemic of obesity.Consistency may be the hobgoblin of small minds (who said that?), but still, we tend to expect it in legislation, and we don't get it in these decisions.
"A foolish consistency", as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and divines".
If a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, these senators must be great souls indeed.Chris TruaxSan DiegoLos Alamos laboratorySIR – Your article on Los Alamos National Laboratory egregiously misrepresents the working environment at the laboratory, both at present and in the past ("A good enough performance?", June 17th).
It is true that he had no vested interest in his own past thoughts and that no one ever better demonstrated that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
A consumptive who spent many years in sanatoriums, Henschke identified with the eternally seeking wandering poet and called himself Klabund, a name derived from Klabautermann ("hobgoblin") and Vagabund ("vagabond").
Serkis's face, however, is so distinctive in its hobgoblin spikiness that there's barely a scene in which the actor doesn't come across as considerably more perverse and menacing than Dury himself: Serkis is more Fagin to the singer's Bill Sikes.
A "foolish consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds", but ideological coherence has intellectual appeal.
Pervez Musharraf, who served as President between 1999 and 2008, now admits that during his tenure he diverted many of those billions to arm Pakistan against its hobgoblin enemy, India.
some tale of spells and curses, some fabrication in which you, a hobgoblin, are entirely to blame.
Apart from a brief, alarming moment in the nineteen-seventies when dress manufacturers stooped to the demands of hippie brides by offering bridal blouses rather than dresses, weddings have only got bigger and grander, as if the extravagance of the ceremony might keep at bay the hobgoblin of divorce statistics.
