What is more, those machines, which have four megabytes of random-access memory and two megabytes bytes of read-only memory - which Mr. Kahn considers bloated beasts compared with the tiny computer inside his REX information organizer.

And when there was nothing left of the malformity and her brood, they turned on their kindred, the bloated beasts who were of the same breed but perversely different, savaging them until they, too, were nothing but bloody shreds.

As the N.B.A. lockout continues to eat its way through the season, the principal view of pro basketball, despite some recent advertisements by Nike attempting to convince us otherwise, is of a stalled and bloated financial beast, made up of wealthy squabblers deadlocked over abstractly large amounts of money.

It moved slowly and carefully along the rise of the Path, looking like a tall, black rider on some huge and bloated beast.

Oh, God omnipotens, I implore Thee strike down this vain, windy, bloated, arrogant, turbulent, rebellious beast of a man, the demon, dog, devil, cursed infected hound, let him not set foot on this ship!

It becoame a bloated, overstyled beast in the early 70's, then a sad Pinto-based economy car, the Mustang II.

A bloated beast that has gorged itself on public money since the end of military rule, it has now felt the force of voters' anger.

A great bloated beast of a man!