Exempel på hobgoblin

• If one is raising hobgoblins about a united foreign policy and a united defence force, one has to say what the alternatives are.

• The thought that one can produce exact figures of the increase in unemployment next year shows a hobgoblin of a little mind.

• I think that that is probably a hobgoblin that we can put behind us for the indefinite future.

• I am reminded of someone who said that consistency is the hobgoblin of little statesmen and little minds.

• Consistency in politics has been variously described as the last refuge of the unimaginative and the hobgoblin of little minds—to name but two.

• I hope that we can remove some of the hobgoblins and that we, at last, will have the opportunity to say that the public interest is back on the agenda.

• That is really a hobgoblin.

• Powerful creatures such as bugbears, ogres, and trolls may occasionally assume leadership positions in a hobgoblin tribe, but normally act as front line muscle.

• The term hobgoblin has grown to mean a superficial object that is a source of (often imagined) fear or trouble.

• In attempting to get it back, the hobgoblin became imprisoned in the tower, and all succeeding spires.

• Other peoples find them paranoid, insulting, and dismissive, while hobgoblins in turn treat all others as potential threats.

• This is a wilderness quest through a great forest, including encounters with hobgoblins, herbalists, and hill giants.

• From the third edition, the term goblinoid has been reserved for goblins, hobgoblins, norkers, and similar creatures.

• A bugbear is depicted as a massive humanoid distantly related to goblins and hobgoblins.

• However, like all of the fae folk, hobgoblins are easily annoyed.