Kill 850 people and save 5,692 others, still another says in a simultaneously funny and chilling litany of escalating numbers.
The litany of names, numbers and financial jargon is at times exhausting, even with the help of an eight-page cast of characters and two-page glossary of acronyms.
The protagonist, Marie, suffers from a litany of misfortunes, whose sheer number may at first seem wearying: self-harm, compulsive promiscuity, drug abuse, squalid poverty, teen pregnancy.
And there's a part of me that wanted to say, 'Are you crazy?' " On the other side was an Iowa woman who responded to Janeane's litany of woes by pressing her phone number on Ms. Wilson and briefing her on health care options.
I added emphasis to this one, to highlight the worst number in the entire litany of facts.
The litany of dead and wounded had become routine.
He recited a litany of updated statistics on the conflict, noting that the number of refugees in neighboring countries now exceeded 220,000, fewer than half of Syria's hospitals are functional and food prices have tripled in some areas.
It concluded: "The documentary made a litany of claims and assertions that are problematic in a number of ways and which we consider to violate Rwandan law, the BBC's own ethical guidelines and limitations to press freedom.
The biographical material, harrowing in its litany of abuse, is disguised (not always smoothly) as patter between numbers.
