And, like a rush job on an eighth-grade essay, there are other moments when facts seem piled upon facts in a breathless "Oh, and also I almost forgot to mention!" sequence, even down to the "thank you" with which the book concludes.
Whether it's the chases, action scenes, exposition filled with technical jargon and weird alien names, or jokes and sight gags that seem piled on top of each other, everything in MIB movies happens fast, which may explain why all three movies are relatively short, with MIB 2 clocking in at just 88 minutes.
As the week wound down, the casualties seemed to pile up.
Coming from Steppenwolf with its Chicago cast mostly intact, the play was an ambitious, turbulent study of an Oklahoma family whose dysfunctions seemed to pile up ad infinitum: pill addiction, alcoholism, suicide, infidelity, incest, and, above all, a talent for cruelty.
Bayern, the German league champion, had just won the Champions League under its departing German coach Jupp Heynckes, and Guardiola — a Spaniard who had just directed Barcelona through a four-year period in which trophies seemed to pile up like snowflakes in a blizzard — was expected to produce the same continental glory.
Image problems seemed to pile up like old laundry when the company admitted that year that its eponymous founder had manufactured uniforms for Nazi officers during World War II.
The CIA seemed to pile on.
But Sessions' repetition seemed like piling on.
"All Japan's social problems, economic problems, political problems all seem to pile up on Toyota".
Like everything in Judaism, our seder evolves each year and the props seem to pile up.
