They piled excess mud next to the channel, which stretches to Florida, and fishermen saw the new land as ideal building locations.
What makes this shift so misguided is not just the piling of excess upon excess, but the opportunity cost – paying for all this hardware by depleting the arsenal of US soft power.
Etc, etc, and on it goes, a crescendoing sequence of excess piled on excess.
The performance style crosses Benny Hill farce with Roman Polanski paranoia (with a touch of "Twilight Zone" sound and lighting effects) as reality-warping excess is piled upon excess.
The pathos of her acting comes from the sense that she had lived lifetimes of emotion in small spans of time — had laughed and cried more in a day than most people do in a year and was piling the excess of new feelings on the exhausted smolder of extinguished conflagrations.
"It should be now be mandatory that every child's weight and body mass index be monitored at seven to identify and intervene with children piling on excess pounds before it continues to escalate".
In travel it is seldom acknowledged how routinely people pile on excess.
Teenagers can pile on excess weight more easily because the body goes into "energy saving mode" during adolescence, research suggests.
In the UK, a quarter of adults are obese and doctors fear that the incidence will only rise in the future as more and more people continue to pile on excess weight.
This flagrant addition of four hours, in one stroke, is excess piling on extravagance.
