Emperor Zurg plays catch with his long-lost son, Buzz Lightyear, in Toy Story 2. The ogre in Shrek is a big softie.
IT HAD a green ogre and gang of huge shape-shifting robots on its side but that was not enough to ensure victory for HD DVD, one of two rival high-definition video-disc formats fighting to become the successor to the DVD.
It also revealed that suspicions about his activities had emerged a month ago.See article: The ogre returnsThe chief executive of BSCH, Spain's biggest bank, resigned.
The top five movies at the American box office since 2000 all featured extraterrestrials, superheroes or a green ogre.
Were this to happen, it would further erode investors' confidence, prompting them to demand still higher yields.In this section They do protest too much No contest Farewell, middle roads A hard winter The ogre in the attic In praise of airness The left's resignation note ReprintsAmid the outcry that followed Mr Sacconi's remarks, Mr Tremonti denied that there was any danger of default.
The ogre is still there, even if for the time being it is safely chained.
The use of state violence was a huge embarrassment to the government, confirming in many peoples' minds the impression that the prime minister was indeed a repressive ogre of Malay nationalism and not the reforming liberal that he had claimed.Stung by widespread criticism in the international press, Mr Najib's government was forced to apologise for much of its behaviour.
But she is making a good job of reaching out to the state's vital independents, painting Mr Sununu as a right-wing ogre and emphasising her friendship with Jim Jeffords, the only independent in the Senate.The closeness of the race means that New Hampshire is saturated with politics.
But by filtering 20th-century China through the life of a single despot without due attention being paid to the iniquities of his opponents, the book feels too much like the story of a lone ogre, and not enough like a complex and dispassionate history.
