Ferdinand, his brutish face loosely sketched, is barely able to stop his golden robes from slipping to the floor; he's a bully in fancy dress.
He was a bull-necked career criminal with a record for robbery, burglary and insurance fraud in New York and Massachusetts — mug shots show a brutish face framed by long flowing hair — and he had a.22-caliber pistol.
And if I live to be a hundred, I will never forget that brutish face and those dreadful minutes.
Not all tyrannosaurs had short, brutish faces like that of Tyrannosaurus rex.
International oil companies such as Shell and BP must completely change their business model or face a "nasty, brutish and short" end within 10 years, one of Britain's most influential energy experts has warned.
Now, like the British and Russians before him, he is facing the most brutish, corrupt, wily and patient warriors in the world, nicknamed dukhi, or ghosts, by flayed Russian soldiers who saw them melt away.
But the outlook began to look dreadful as Oakley, the brutish Toronto power forward, kept depositing long jump shots in the faces of his former employers.
It was as ghastly a parody as could be expected: Jo's brutish consort in top hat and all the rest, Jo's face glistening with makeup, eyelashes twinkling with glitter-dust.
Other than that, the placid, respectful coach of one of the N.F.L.'s most brutish, bone-crunching defenses, was dutiful and polite as he faced the biggest game of his career, although Dungy put that in perspective, too.
Faced with the takeover of their not-so-secret den by brutish rivals, everything has come down to a one-off decisive football match and, since they're not actually that great at football, their chances don't look too good.
In the latter, Peggy Ashcroft as the "she-wolf" Queen Margaret wiped his face with a rag soaked in the blood of his murdered son, and their brutish stand-off, ending in York's torture and death, was a highlight of the cycle.
