Among friends, Fellburnie came across as quite the amiable woman, a classic "genial giant"... but on the job, I could imagine her slipping into Bad Cop any old time she felt like it.

He stood there, a genial giant, smiling pleasantly, and Rosie wished very much that the ground beneath her feet might open up and swallow her.

Each episode of the new series begins with signature music and a genial giant who winds up his music-box castle and introduces young viewers to the fantasy world of the puppets who live there.

Mr. Belliveau was described by friends as a popular, genial giant with penchant for never backing down in a fight and an unquenchable enthusiasm for weight lifting.

Buddy and Max were known as the "professional good guys" or "the genial giants".

The Scottish selectors, however, rated his prime potential value to Scotland as a prop and the genial giant is in the process of seeking to establish himself in the tighthead position.

He was a genial giant, a terror to the riotous element of the waterfront, but obviously ill at ease in the presence of death.

But Hoang Fu had been classed as a genial giant, his nature free from malice.

A genial giant, he is very keen on quality fielding, and always disgusted when Bob Jackson drops someone in the slips off his bowling.

The thought of the genial but evil giant presented her with an unexpected problem.