But neither they nor the placid herbivores inspire anything close to awe, even with the aid of audience stimulants like surging symphonic music (by the shameless John Williams) and repeated closeups of wide-eyed, openmouthed actors.
For Silicon Valley to remain the technological growth engine that continues to awe the rest of the world, we must balance the need to regulate and report with the even more dire need to grow and create jobs.
However, when, just a few days later, Gordon Brown set out the (questionable) arguments that underpin his belief that there is no model for delivering health care with equity and efficiency that is superior to the National Health Service, he was heard with something close to awe.
It said workers were angry over the increased payments to the AWE board and level of dividends being paid to its controlling companies.
The Maha Kumbh Mela got off to an awe-inspiring start on Monday, with the first of the main bathing days seeing an estimated 10 million taking a dip.
And I have been one of the most ardent defenders of the small, personal museum that you remember with particular affection, as opposed to the awe inspired by the increasingly affectless grandeur of our enormous arts institutions that expand relentlessly as their price of admission rises.
Mr Suharto seemed to model himself on a Javanese monarch, to be regarded with awe rather than affection, Mr Habibie wants to be liked.
At night, the Roman amphitheatre glowed with the masculine swagger of imperial might, and I had to swallow my expressions of awe rather than gasp them to my husband, whose absence I felt as palpably as I would have his presence.
We all just used to be in awe of him, just being in his presence.
But most come simply to look, to stand in awe of the sheer beauty of this amazing place.
Others will prefer to stand in awe of a universe that they suspect began as a quantum fluctuation in pre-existing nothingness.
Merely mention poutine to Montrealers, and the inflection in their voices changes to adoration and awe for this ultimate Quebecois comfort food.
Today we turn to the cosmic awe conjured by science fiction, or the outer-space snapshots of the Hubble telescope as it calls forth our ever-deeper, ever-brighter possible selves.
We are here hours before we even realize there is a terrace, with a glittering view of the Regent Street Christmas lights, so we feel a childlike awe to be high up amongst them, rather than viewing them from the top deck of one of the red buses way down below.
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The second half was remarkable in that there was only one score, a Skrela penalty in the 58th minute, and it showed that once Glasgow had ceased to be in awe of their illustrious opponents they could play a bit of rugby as a raft of unforced errors haunted the Toulouse backs.
His energetic meticulousness (passed on from our mother) and his breathtaking perseverance (passed on from our father) served only to magnify my awe of an older brother who everyone agreed was intended for great things, while most boys his age didn't look as though they were intended even to eat at a table with another human being.
Studying moral elevation led me to study feelings of awe more generally, and before I knew it, I was trying to understand a whole class of positive emotions in which people feel as though they have somehow escaped from or "transcended" their normal, everyday, often petty self.
Then it was off to the Galilee where he told his aides it was awe-inspiring to be where Jesus lived and preached.
"Tony Sale's tribute to the wartime codebreakers is awe-inspiring and we are seeking resources to present the rebuilt Colossus so that generations to come will be able to understand its significance, " he said.
For NBA sponsors and their Madison Avenue agencies, June also means a blizzard of 30-second spots designed primarily to "shock and awe" millions of American consumers about (mostly) their products.
"It's hard to take an artist who has international recognition and find some way to put them in awe, " says Piper, who has been with the parade for 32 years.
Anecdotally, appealing to the Almighty offers awe-inspiring economic potential.
Considering that the standard turbine size is roughly one third of this size, the new breed of mega offshore wind turbines would seem sufficiently massive to inspire shock and awe in most people.
It was not until the late 1700s that the trombone was employed in the opera orchestra with any regularity, and then its primary function was to evoke feelings of awe in scenes involving the spiritual or the supernatural.
Sights you can expect to gawk at in awe on your voyage include a variety of points on the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, a whole mess of seals, four different types of penguins and a starkly beautiful panorama of unforgiving rock, ice, and snow.
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It remains to be seen how long Heras will keep up with Armstrong et al but expect crowds to be left in awe by his climbing ability - he could yet be crowned king of the mountains - and will surely bring a stage victory on one of the tougher stages this time around.
Armstrong's seemingly casual reaction to peril left his NASA colleagues in awe when, in May 1968, he picked exactly the right time to eject from a lunar landing simulator that had spun out of control.
Mysterious and beautiful, the Moon has been a source of awe and inspiration to mankind for millennia.
Britain is not doing this work (and other projects AWE is up to on its own) in a fit of altruism.
The Java awe is supposed to reflect on Sun's "Project Orion, " a collection of software introduced this year to compete with IBM products.
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