It's become an iconic canvas onto which an entire generation projected its fear of the Other, a 1960s bogeyman. |
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One common one causing fright or dread was called in Yorkshire the boggart, in Scotland the bogle, and in England the bogey or bogeyman. |
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Thanks to mass media, he has become the poster boy and the bogeyman for a new age of terror. |
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But today's report comparing property inflation with rises in wages suggests we are frightened of the wrong bogeyman. |
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The old values of community are reaffirmed while progress is forever the bogeyman. |
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We have the means and enough reasons to blot this bogeyman out of existence. |
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But some people really need to conquer their fear of this bogeyman that lurks in their psyches. |
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Terrorism may have replaced the Devil as the bogeyman, but the same principle applies. |
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Decoding the laugh track of the CNN Debate in Arizona, featuring references to George Costanza and bogeyman Mike Dukakis. |
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It's the moment in which fear is no longer the bogeyman under your bed. |
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Their response to legitimate questioning is name-calling, personal abuse, and invoking the bogeyman of the various isms and ists that seem to inhabit their hysterical world. |
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What went before, an interim framework agreement that caused a great deal of controversy, is no longer the bogeyman. |
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Insurance is a large and varied industry, and frequently plays the heavy and bogeyman, especially the health insurers. |
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Hamas remains the bogeyman, much as the PLO was, before Madrid and Oslo, but with some crucial differences. |
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The opposition needs to gets its act together quickly if the bogeyman of sectarian division is to be avoided. |
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Franken's prominence comes at a time in which Republicans have struggled to find an easy Democratic bogeyman. |
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They have always tried to truncate people's freedoms with the justification of some bogeyman of some type, but it ought to be rejected. |
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Businesspeople are under scrutiny as they have not been for 30 years and bankers are everyone's favourite bogeyman. |
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I am totally mystified as to why we have a motion that is a real bogeyman before us today. |
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It was Congress that conjured up the bogeyman of strong states causing a weak national government and vice versa. |
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But I do want to drive a stake through the heart of that old cliché of CSIS as the bogeyman. |
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Above all else, it must fit into the overall scheme of things so that it does not become the bogeyman of crisis management. |
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My Office is clearly not trying to cast social networking sites in the role of privacy bogeyman. |
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Let us set aside this nonsense that somehow this issue is being raised as a political bogeyman, that accusations are being thrown around. |
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Madam Speaker, I am somewhat disappointed in the speech made by the member for Westmount-Ville-Marie, who is frankly playing the bogeyman today. |
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The idea has been held up as a bogeyman to stifle the debate on collective preferences. |
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These should not be the big bogeyman for business that they are often portrayed as. |
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Mr. Speaker, since we came to power, the Bloc's approach has always been to play the bogeyman. |
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We have graduated in a single generation from the bogeyman of the Vietnam vet turned sociopath to the bogeyman of the antiwar radical turned Bluebeard. |
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Which explains the recent appearance of a bogeyman in the culture wars designed to distract from pressing economic realities. |
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Anyway, in the first keynote political speech of the year, she's reanimated the old bogeyman argument that earth's oil supply is about to run out. |
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Like his gen-x contemporaries, including Wallace, Franzen sees our modern ennui as the big bogeyman of our time. |
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Just as small children project their fear of the dark on to an imaginary bogeyman, the protagonists of the Western economies lay their fears at the door of the Iraqi dictator. |
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Lumping men together as one massive evil bogeyman is not constructive. |
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For many in the green lobby, atomic power is the ultimate bogeyman, blighting landscapes and producing waste which is difficult to dispose of safely. |
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A dignified life is systematically refused because western civilisation needs its bogeyman images to blame for the bad state of social affairs, deficits in education criminality terrorism and so on. |
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There are some who are making the United States into a bogeyman. |
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They always say, oh, we have this great quality of life, but when it comes to actually implementing it, it's just like the big bogeyman is chasing it away. |
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Instead of making serious attempts to carry out economic reforms, certain people prefer to use the Polish plumber as a bogeyman to scare children and young people looking for work. |
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I do not support the view of many on the 'no' side that NATO is the bogeyman of the world, nor that the UN is necessarily the panacea for all global ills. |
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When the NDP raise the bogeyman, the ominous picture of someone who is fundamentally against a group of Canadians, aboriginal or non-aboriginal, it does not do a service to this debate. |
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What you are doing here is constructing a fictitious bogeyman by claiming that the remainder of the EU is against you and the environment, which you alone allegedly care for. |
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Parents may tell their children that if they misbehave, the bogeyman will get them. |
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We are not talking about the bogeyman, who comes from the Jonquière-Alma region, and who is telling us that the end of the world is near because, all of a sudden, there is an anti-scab law in Canada. |
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For these reasons, the Öry report should be viewed not so much as a bogeyman, but more as a simple guide on how to achieve the gradual fulfilment of the revised Lisbon Strategy goals. |
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In many countries, a bogeyman variant is portrayed as a man with a sack on his back who carries naughty children away. |
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In Germanic countries, the bogeyman is called the butzemann, busseman, buhman, or boeman. |
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The bogeyman is usually a masculine entity, but can be any gender, or simply be androgynous. |
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Although the archetypical emblem of an online troll is of a grinning bogeyman, the word can be traced back to the Old French verb troller, meaning to wander around while hunting. |
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He creates a distraction and a bogeyman called the notwithstanding clause, arguing that the proponents of marriage secretly wish to invoke the clause in order to jeopardize all of Canadians' fundamental and acquired rights. |
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That includes Ali Hakim, a comic bogeyman, and the sinister, smouldering Jud. |
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I guess I'm still trying to grapple with how we do this so that we don't put up the bogeyman and we don't destroy the work of cracking down on anti-Semitism by being so politically careful. |
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They want Canada to be the bogeyman, but that just is not true. |
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I am neither a doomsayer nor the bogeyman. |
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Yes we all must be alert and stay vigilant but we cannot let the real problem within families be ignored due to fear of the bogeyman. |
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These days, China has replaced Japan as the world's trade-surplus bogeyman of choice. |
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Each two-page profile is illustrated with a detailed color drawing, apparently executed by the famous artist Vic Vac, of a cartoon bogeyman. |
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There was a time when children used to be frightened with the concept of a bogeyman. |
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Crude tactics Battlechips Jailing the bogeyman Who needs paper? |
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But I do think he ought to stop waving at a fantastic vision of a Europe that doesn't exist when he needs a bogeyman for whatever point he's trying to score in an argument. |
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Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, the pro-Nazi Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who is the chief bogeyman of many pro-Israel histories, comes across as a weak leader with far less influence than is usually ascribed to him. |
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We then watched Fungus the Bogeyman whilst stuffing ourselves with fruit pastilles. |
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He is starring in the children's drama Fungus The Bogeyman, a celebration of all things slimy and revolting, which begins at teatime on Sunday. |
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Age Concern in Durham will be joining up with Durham Constabulary to present a Beat The Bogeyman talk about how to handle bogus callers. |
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The Bogeyman takes bad children or those that refuse to sleep and locks them in his basement for a period of time. |
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As with many ancient legends, the Bogeyman has seen a rekindled popularity in modern media, including media aimed at children. |
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The canals, compost heaps, and tenfoots of O'Brien's poems recall the mouldy suburban landscapes of Raymond Briggs's Fungus the Bogeyman, and no less than in Briggs. |
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