| Summoned by typing an inane phrase into an Internet chat room, this particular bogyman — a meathead with sewn-shut eyes and grin — will happily slash the phrase's recipient. |
| But race is usually less about facts than historical mythology, which evokes the black bogyman, who saps the money from the whites who earn it. |
| He became a myth, a bogyman, in whose name blacks and Asians were to be harassed and assaulted for the next couple of decades. |
| Clearly our current spirit of neopatriotism cannot vanquish the old bogyman of racism in America. |
| They see the socialist bogyman under their beds, and they want to kill it. |
