Seattle's high nice day count may surprise, given its rainy reputation, but it piles them up during its dry summer season.
Yet "Big Fish," which has been carefully designed to grow on you as it piles up its excesses, perversely starts shrinking almost from the beginning.
Yet it piles cash from its high margin business ($20 billion net income on $88 billion in revenue in Q4) and maintains an image that it will dominate the future of consumer tech hardware.
Nevertheless, the show's natural playfulness wins out, and, in its magical wishing-well sequence, it piles on astonishment and wonder with gorgeous abandon.
Sales figures released Thursday revealed a country that is rapidly ratcheting back its spending habits even as it piles up credit card debt and abandons midtier shopping mall mainstays that were booming just a year ago.
In Macmillan's 26-page response, it said, "Absent any direct evidence of conspiracy, the government's complaint is necessarily based entirely on the little circumstantial evidence it was able to locate during its extensive investigation, on which it piles innuendo on top of innuendo, stretches facts and implies actions that did not occur and Macmillan denies unequivocally".
The government, said Macmillan's response (pdf), found a "lack of direct evidence of conspiracy", and its complaint is therefore "based entirely on the little circumstantial evidence it was able to locate during its extensive investigation, on which it piles innuendo on top of innuendo, stretches facts and implies actions that did not occur and which Macmillan denies unequivocally".
The remake feels at pains to acknowledge its characters' privilege, even as it piles on the gorgeous surfaces, the expensive meals and the multimillion-dollar real estate.
It piles up around us; increasingly we live on a ball of it.
It piles drifts in the driveway and unscrews the bird feeders from their hangers.
