"devil" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- These folk devils can be used for political advancement or financial gain via lawsuits such as those that have targeted game makers.
- We've turned our deviants into folk devils with names like Hoody.
- Hostility - Hostility towards the group in question increases, and they become "folk devils".
- It is important at this stage that the "moral entrepreneurs" are vocal and the "folk devils" appear weak and disorganised.
- I live in the North East - a region supposedly overly dependent on public sector jobs (the new folk devils of the right).
- The pursuit of folk devils frequently intensifies into a mass movement that is called a moral panic.
- The mass media sometimes get in on the act or attempt to create new folk devils to create controversies.
- Sometimes the campaign against the folk devil influences a nation's politics and legislation.
- The identification of folk devils may reflect the efforts of powerful institutions to displace social anxieties.
- Three of the Americans were bare-chested and sunburned red, so that they looked to her like oni, Japanese folk devils.
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