ogreish


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Yet the 22-year-old was prepared to risk it all against the ogreish champion Liston, who by complete contrast was coming off the back of two consecutive first-round victories over Floyd Patterson.
To a roar of guitar and thunderclap of drums and bass, vocalist Stu Blackburn barrels onto stage wearing a grotesque, ogreish mask and launches forth into the incendiary Shark Eyed Man - Beware!
"Matt who played David in David and Goliath?" The same fourteen-year-old boy I remembered singing the lead part in the Junior Choir's rendition of David and Goliath as the biblical hero who slays the ogreish Philistine warrior with a rock from his slingshot later murdered his sister, Anne Harper, on Thanksgiving morning, 1995.
The benevolent Shamalans have been betrayed and nearly wiped out, and Princess Sarintha has been captured by the brutal warlord of the ogreish Serpans.
The fact that the three represent different national airlines - American, Italian and German - gives free reign for national stereotyping, which is actually quite disconcerting in the case of the ogreish Lufthansa stewardess, Gretchen.
It's as if Rumplestiltskin had been bested by the Queen who secretly learned his true name, such was AD's ugly ogreish passion in his attacks on Fisk, Jimmy Carter and others".
(37) Moreover Red's 'ogreish hunger' associates him with the cannibalistic beast-men of innumerable European folk tales, not to mention with Fremiet's gorilla; insatiable appetite for meat codes for inordinate sexual desire.
At bottom was the Fairchild family, headed by George (Geoffrey Hinsliff), whose missus Agnes (Barbara Ewing) is the target for Bradley's lechery, mainly because Bradley's own wife, the gin-sodden Lady Patience (Caroline Blakiston), has confined herself to a wheelchair rather than share the marital couch with her ogreish mate.