His quickly mounting count of confirmed kills gets him nicknamed "the Legend," and he hates it, because he knows that he's being acclaimed for doing something that he knows to be both holy and sinful, too sacred for desecration in vulgar slogans and too horrific to be celebrated.
To downplay the mounting death count in Iraq, the Administration enforced a ban on the filming or photographing of coffins arriving at Dover Air Force Base.
But as the murders are actually being committed, investigators prove far too ready to attribute the mounting body count to accidents, medical error, or a male perpetrator.
Manager Joe Torre was determined to relieve Mussina for the seventh inning because of his mounting pitch count, and Mike Stanton began warming up in the bullpen, readying for his 20th appearance in the team's 41 games.
Among a supporting cast forced either to comment upon or submit to the mounting body count, a visually scarred Jamie Ballard is properly disturbing as the blind Teiresias, the prophet who warns the assemblage that the Furies are on their way.
Few teams soldier through injuries with the pride and confidence of the Chicago Bulls, but even they were not be able to handle the mounting body count in Game 5.
Sir David Hare has criticised the mounting "body count" and lack of realism in contemporary film and television drama after completing a screen espionage trilogy in which no character ever fires a gun.
A post-"Hunger Games" inflation of effects has set in; it was once enough to have the villain beat a child to make him a villain; now we need blood, wounds and a mounting body count.
The Yankees say that Hughes's mounting innings count — 169 1/3 — will have no bearing on his postseason role, although they still may tinker with his remaining schedule to ease his workload.
Under attack in the Miami debate from all the candidates who trail him in the polls and the mounting delegate count, he said "I want a much better deal with Cuba" and repeated a familiar line: "We don't make any good deals".
