(n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Example Sentences:
(1) The War Against Terror is another moment in this continuing saga of our species toward an unpredictable somewhere between All against All and One World,” writes Scott Atran, attempting to place terrorism in the context of the evolution of human identities: While economic globalisation has steamrolled or left aside large chunks of humankind, political globalisation actively engages people of all societies and walks of life – even the global economy’s driftwood: refugees, migrants, marginals, and those most frustrated in their aspirations.
(2) Sixteen South Belfast-based Sixteen South specialises in children's TV programmes and its hits include Pajanimals and Driftwood Bay .
(3) • Doubles from €115 B&B, laalmendrayelgitano.com Hotel MC San José A chic and stylish boutique hotel in a seaside town, with a proper seaside holiday feel courtesy of the boat in the lobby and liberal use of driftwood and pebbles.
(4) There's a wood-burning stove, and bits of sculpture everywhere – a couple of large marrows sculpted in brass, another of concrete; a skull with gold-tipped teeth (like Lucas's own, they flash when she smiles); a pair of pert round breasts, perched like jellies atop shelves of music; small casts of her boyfriend Julian Simmons's penis, made for her show Penetralia , which opened in 2008; a big painting by Raymond Pettibon; huge red platform shoes and black fetish boots that she will cast in concrete and show in Krems, Austria in July; a general, seaside sense of driftwood and flotsam.
(5) We think about making a sculpture out of driftwood.
(6) In theory this is the moment of pure patronage in British politics, the hours when the prime minister can ruthlessly remove the ministerial deadwood and driftwood, alongside the politically awkward or dispensable.
(7) The show started in 1860 when the newly-wed "Professor" Codman carved two pieces of driftwood into the much-loved glove puppets.
(8) The £6bn garden industry sells plants but also £20,000 wooden statues of horses and panthers, £10,000 gateposts and sheds, as well as beehives, bird boxes and driftwood sculptures.
(9) For me, Weston's black and white images of Point Lobos – its angular rocks, tangled seaweed, bent cypress trees, sun-scorched driftwood – possess an almost unearthly beauty that is both austere and sensual, somehow not so "heightened" through technique as his more famous pictures.
(10) How much easier it would be to turn away from my intended destination and move in their direction, flowing with them, like driftwood carried by a flood.
(11) Rita Kaimwata, a 27-year-old mother of two (soon to be three), lives in a typical Kiribati home of driftwood, salvaged timber and palm thatching.
(12) We stop at fjord-side pots in Strandir , on rocky beaches strewn with giant pieces of driftwood from Siberian trees bleached by the elements.
(13) The item, discovered among seaweed and driftwood, resembles part of a plane, with the words “caution no step” visible, according to footage on Australia’s Channel Seven.
(14) Inside is a bench of driftwood and some empty plastic containers.
(15) This winter you’ll be stepping into Skye Halla, a Viking “Drinking Hall in the Clouds” with fire pits, driftwood sculptures and a Viking long boat.
(16) When I arrived to build my own bothy, I found the wreckage of many other formerly grand structures, now merely driftwood on the sand.
Flotsam
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Flotson
Example Sentences:
(1) Injudicious as Neil Hamilton's misdemeanors were, they were only the flotsam on the tide of Tory sleaze.
(2) There are question marks being raised as to whether you could interpret this as being anything other than flotsam,” he said.
(3) Succinct tales of fracture and failure, and thumbnail sketches of lonely desperation, positively revelling in the flotsam of American life are all set to jaunty rock and ragtime rhythms.
(4) There’s weightier stuff underneath, the post-second-world-war search for meaning of Anderson’s last film The Master washing up here in the flotsam of California’s alternative communities (the director adapted Pynchon’s 2009 novel during a hiatus in development on the earlier work).
(5) MH370 search: 'rogue pilot' theory still on Australian investigators' radar Read more Two other pieces of flotsam, found on Réunion and Mozambique , are suspected to come from the plane, but are yet to be positively identified.
(6) There's a wood-burning stove, and bits of sculpture everywhere – a couple of large marrows sculpted in brass, another of concrete; a skull with gold-tipped teeth (like Lucas's own, they flash when she smiles); a pair of pert round breasts, perched like jellies atop shelves of music; small casts of her boyfriend Julian Simmons's penis, made for her show Penetralia , which opened in 2008; a big painting by Raymond Pettibon; huge red platform shoes and black fetish boots that she will cast in concrete and show in Krems, Austria in July; a general, seaside sense of driftwood and flotsam.
(7) Coastal communities on the US west coast are now discussing what to do with the large quantities of flotsam that could make it ashore in the coming months.
(8) A dead pig lolls among the flotsam on South Tarawa beach.
(9) He set about interviewing the crossing-sweepers, Punch and Judy entertainers, sandwich-sellers, rag-gatherers, rat-killers, doll's-eye makers, thieves, prostitutes, beggars, and all the other pieces of human flotsam and jetsam that had washed up in the capital.
(10) It's a bold combo that would turn heads in dour downtown Montreal, although Claire looks perfectly at home among the junkshop flotsam and aborted art projects of La Brique, a former industrial loft that's now the epicentre of the city's colourful underground scene.
(11) For those sweet souls out there whose minds have remained unsullied by the flotsam and jetsam of the fashion world, I shall explain.
(12) Everybody knows that we shall not be detaining the Saudi paymasters of terror for 42 days; just as happened under internment, we shall be scraping up the flotsam and jetsam of communities.
(13) Beachcombers began to pick their way through the flotsam and jetsam thrown on to the shore.
(14) Is Maya, like Ishmael, the lone survivor left clinging to the flotsam of the Pequod?
(15) When we started out, we picked up all sorts of flotsam and jetsam.
(16) Those of us already caught in its grip are but flotsam, inconvenient but ultimately discardable.
(17) It’s one thing to spill your guts in your own book, but another to do so among the Z-list flotsam and jetsam in the CBB house.