But I can see something else here-these are all-well, human flotsam.

That means I can't hold resentments against people, even a piece of human flotsam like you, no matter what they've done to me.

As he set to work, Sumatra's shores were already a soup of human flotsam.

And then they left the human flotsam who lived there to drift, instead of taking care of them too.

He tried to imagine the roomy boulevards and avenues swept clean of useless human flotsam.

Into such places are emptied the human flotsam who cannot afford life in the showpiece capital.

Men swirled about into little, grunting eddies of human flotsam.

He was safe among other human flotsam.

Mr. Moreno was neither hero nor romantic antihero, just human flotsam.

Still, the appeals office remains besieged with the human flotsam of a period that many Chinese would just as soon forget.