The receding waters had left behind detritus: shoes, shredded tires, home insulation, a light-blue Mustang with its convertible roof half torn.
Within living memory the city was a grimy leftover of an industrial era that had moved on, leaving its detritus of factories and smokestacks, cramped Victorian housing and spit-and-sawdust pubs.
Yet he does caustically capture a hard truth: the nature and traditions of Africa are being "nibbled" away, leaving a detritus (of many kinds) that has to be sloughed off in order for a healthier and more African Africa to move ahead.
If these lands are now part of "the dust of empire" (Meyer borrows his title from a remark by de Gaulle), it's because this is where great imperial powers, England and Russia, collided as they grew and then withdrew, leaving the detritus behind.
In Sherpur's shadow, as I sloshed through the streets of the other Kabul, past refugees in muddy tents and a woman left like detritus on the road, quivering, I wondered how Afghanistan's warlords, steeped in the jihadi tradition of intimidation, could ever bring peace, or economic hope, to the Afghan people.
"Good internet culture leaves digital detritus, tweets, likes, comments, retweets, reblogs, news articles, and even the occasional appearance on national television (THE HOLY GRAIL)." "Culture isn't just valuable when you can stuff it full of DRM and sell it".
The sweep of life leaves a detritus of friends behind.
He and the fellow assemblagists John T. Riddle Jr. and John Outterbridge began to make sculptures using rubble and detritus left in the aftermath of the riots.
(Also like mice, they leave tiny bits of detritus).
People are comparatively rare in his work, even as the wrack and detritus they leave behind looms large.
Whether run manually or otherwise, simple uninstall programs (including the one built into Windows) can still leave a lot of detritus in the operating system's registry.
