| I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. |
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| Preston's troupe preferred to circumvent the chaotic jetsam of the central areas by focusing their efforts on the flanks. |
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| Tony Williams is a pitiful wretch, on the jetsam on the shore of the Anacostia. |
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| But, as I walk through here, the mud that is caked and the flotsam and jetsam. |
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| Harmonization was one of those words I thought I'd seen the end of, but here it is again, surfacing among the flotsam and jetsam at City Hall. |
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| For mainstream media, the plentiful underachievers are customarily the rough equivalent of flotsam and jetsam. |
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| The glorious mix of water, blood, flotsam, and jetsam crackles resoundingly with a new life. |
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| But like lefties everywhere, clinging to whatever jetsam keeps us afloat, I believe every revolution ere now was betrayed. |
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| Those years and four children later, I was among the jetsam of my husband's midlife crisis. |
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| Scuba girl grabs a handful of abrasive jetsam, rubs it in the zombie's face, and makes her escape. |
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| Flotsam and jetsam drifted from the yacht, some having already washed ashore. |
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| I tell him I don't know what either flotsam or jetsam mean beyond their colloquial connotations. |
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| I kick indifferently among the jetsam that has sedimented up against the curb somebody once painted white and then forgot about. |
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| A half-open closet nearby revealed the assorted flotsam and jetsam that had been cunningly arranged to produce ethereal effects. |
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| Liberation simply travels, picking up junk and jetsam along the way, discarding it somewhere downstream, and rambling on. |
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| Forgotten debris, dormant flotsam and jetsam, Bleu nature uses driftwood, a raw material that does not deplete the Earth's natural resources. |
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| For all the flotsam and jetsam of colourful costumes and props and clownishness, this production lacks the emotional and mythic dimensions of Beaumont's vision. |
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| Typical examples of materials found include visitor waste, flotsam and jetsam, off-shore fishing waste and articles such as cotton buds and materials washed down toilets. |
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| They were modernist, Marxist and anti-Stalinist, despised by communists and ignored by conservatives, the international flotsam and jetsam of the Age of Ideology. |
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| This is just flotsam and jetsam on the big scheme of things. |
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| I certainly don't have the time to write such mundanities or the stomach for having the flotsam and jetsam of my life zapping around the globe, courtesy of the Web. |
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| And his audiences react in this way because MacLennan's ideas sometimes seem a mishmash, an arbitrary collection of the lost and found, flotsam and jetsam. |
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| The bright new paintwork on the ship's funnel and wheelhouse stand proud against the murky grey waters of the River Clyde, like a symbol of hope amidst the flotsam and jetsam. |
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| They will be known as collateral damage, unavoidable flotsam and jetsam from the mighty tides of war. |
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| French, top class scuba-diver, specialised in underwater flotsam and jetsam researches. |
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| For those sweet souls out there whose minds have remained unsullied by the flotsam and jetsam of the fashion world, I shall explain. |
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| At the high tide mark in the jetsam watch for the jumping shapes of an amphipod, called beach flea or beach hopper. |
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| Ensure the dredging operations, of mud and jetsam removal in the basins and channel ports. |
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| With all those heads twizzling by and all manner of human flotsam and jetsam floating by it is often impossible to keep your finger on the pulse of things. |
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| Of these, the real scene-stealer is the good old-fashioned jetsam. |
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| I love how when you look up flotsam in the dictionary it says jetsam. |
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| While this may require more filtering to remove jots of jetsam, it is neither too salty due to constant mixing with sea-water, nor too earthy, due to proximity to soil. |
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| But others have realized that something could be made of the jetsam. |
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| The women were blonde because they were hairdressers, not jet-set jetsam. |
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| Once there he meets the flotsam and jetsam who congregate at a roadhouse belonging to a white-suited gent nicknamed Panama because of his romantic tales of foreign adventure. |
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| But we know that asylum seekers generally want to contribute to the societies that admit them and do not want to feel like unwanted jetsam condemned to live on charity and tolerance. |
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| The desk in Tony Kitchener's office is cluttered with technical drawings, completed prototypes of air compressor parts and the general flotsam and jetsam of any working desk. |
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| They are more than interactive flotsam and jetsam. |
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| And if isn't the flotsam and jetsam, it's the smell. |
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| The other Sargasso is the flotsam and jetsam of the past. |
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| Flotsam and jetsam are two different things. |
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| The streets were filled with flotsam and jetsam. |
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| Not far from his makeshift shelter made of scraps and jetsam, he wipes his brow and admits that since the age of 16, he has done nothing but this. |
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| The story of the Art Metropole Collection begins sometime in the late sixties when a group of artists known as General Idea began collecting the flotsam and jetsam that passed through their lives and studios. |
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| Look for a mermaid's purse along the strand line, among the flotsam and jetsam left behind by the waves at low tide. |
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| It is amazing, however, how much jetsam and flotsam we find. |
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| There she was, floating amongst the jetsam, like so much debris. |
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| In the United Kingdom under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, jetsam, flotsam, lagan and all other cargo and wreckage remain the property of their original owners. |
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