Sentence examples for much detritus from inspiring English sources

The point being that improvement, progress and reform are possible without sweeping away the existing institutions of society like so much detritus.

There's a tsunami that crashes through the middle of the film like a cascade, its glassy waters filled to bursting with the effects of civilisation, suddenly just so much detritus.

"Stomp" even nods to "Tubes" in its design, which includes a roll of toilet paper hanging from a wall littered with as much detritus as a Richard Foreman set.

(Hint: don't come late to either unless you want to be singled out for ridicule). "Stomp" even nods to "Tubes" in its design, which includes a roll of toilet paper hanging from a wall littered with as much detritus as a Richard Foreman set.

And while the conceit remains from London whereby various props from the characters' lives accumulate at the rear of the stage like so much detritus, a once-arresting device no longer works as metaphor but, instead, as an excuse for some burdensome scene changes.

There is so much detritus, noise and schadenfreude.

And it's disturbing how much dust and detritus can accumulate in a few days, especially under the kitchen table: quite embarrassing if people pop in unexpectedly.

Detractors, and even some of her fans, wonder why she needs to junk up her crystalline narratives with so much formal detritus.

It now collects so much digital detritus — e-mails, calls, text messages, cellphone location data and a catalog of computer viruses — that the N.S.A. is building a 1-million-square-foot facility in the Utah desert to store and process it.

When I saw this family, I knew there was the potential for a beautiful photograph: the beach behind them was empty, they were positioned well (I don't like to arrange people at all), and they didn't have too much picnic detritus.

A riveting hybrid of painting and drawing, the 4-by-5-foot scene depicts tables on paint-spattered saw horses loaded with crumpled paint tubes, tin cans, brushes, pastel sticks and too much other detritus to mention here; it verges on a kind of fantastic landscape.