Meaning: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering. Synonyms: barbarous; cruel; fell; savage; vicious; brutal; roughshod. Context examples: a barbarous crime / brutal beatings / cruel tortures / Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks / a savage slap / vicious kicks. Similar:
The film was extremely successful on release in 2001 and it helped establish DreamWorks as a prime competitor to Disney and Pixar in the field of feature film animation, particularly in computer animation.
IT WAS WRITTEN BY AN 83-YEAR-OLD. Shrek was loosely based on William Steigâs 1990 picture book, Shrek! Steig was a prolific cartoonist for The New Yorker and a childrenâs writer who Newsweek once dubbed the âking of cartoons.â Steig passed away at the age of 95 in 2003, two years after Shrek's release.