Driftwood used in a sentence

Driftwood in a sentence as a noun

What about the driftwood lamps and such which are just prebought components fished through holes someone drilled?

How does this differ from a driftwood lamp or a clock with a ready-built clockwork? It's not just semantics.

In the same vein, the person who finds a piece of driftwood with an uncanny resemblance to Cthulhu owns it. It does not matter if it was constructed or found.

I paid $1,500 shipped for a driftwood dresser, made to order, and to spec. It was about 10x more material and labor, at the same cost, and it was made by an amazing craftsman.

My father and I erected a gateway made of driftwood, and covered it in leaves and flowers. No money was spent, other than my sister's cheap, plain white dress and the groom's simple suit.

It almost looks like you are a luxurious piece of driftwood, bobbing to force of massive tides. A lot of people have this standard of elite where if it's better than 99% of the world, then you must be an elite.

My grandfather was ship-wrecked in the South Pacific by a kamikaze pilot and survived on driftwood for 6 weeks by drinking fish blood. I don't even want to imagine what those kinds of lives were like.

It's not private property - it was built with driftwood in a public nature preserve. The authorities wanted it gone, but first of all - it's natural driftwood - is that illegal?

To play devils advocate, the driftwood lamps are all unique pieces made with lighting parts that probably couldn't be made by an individual. A clockwork is outside the scope of individual construction as well.

The main thing the beauty seems to emphasize is variable naming and other inane surface level driftwood. This stuff is not what makes code beautiful and any code can be converted to look like this with simple formatting tools.

The driftwood wasn't made by the person, but by nature. You saying the clockwork is outside the scope of individual construction, but this guy is getting hammered for using a circuit board? Because yeah, those are so much easier to knock up compared to a clock mechanism... Any Tom, Dick or Harry, can drill a whole for a light fitting in some driftwood.

> The thing I dislike about so much of this rationalist stuff is that, honestly, it breaks apart like so much driftwood when confronted with the jagged incongruities of how real people work. > Intelligence is resented, systems are illogical kludges, people are unpredictable...

~ The thing I dislike about so much of this rationalist stuff is that, honestly, it breaks apart like so much driftwood when confronted with the jagged incongruities of how real people work. Intelligence is resented, systems are illogical kludges, people are unpredictable...

The bohemian aspect, in terms of style and decor, was clearly part of the beachcomber look—the guy in tattered clothes who built his shack from found objects and natural materials like bamboo and driftwood. It became this escapist thing for urbanites to go to these places and feel bohemian for a while.

---- The thing I dislike about so much of this rationalist stuff is that, honestly, it breaks apart like so much driftwood when confronted with the jagged incongruities of how real people work. Maybe you are using too narrow a definition of "rational". It's easy to break something apart like so much driftwood when you're attacking a strawman.

So, its a multi front battle yahoo is in: need talent, need innovation strategy {VC/Acquisitions/dropping driftwood/etc}, need acquisitions that facebook/google are strategically vying for and need to create a relevant service. Quora, while I have my issues with them, IS relevant.

Someone might counter this argument by pointing out Heather Jansch's driftwood sculptures of horses, which are remarkably made of bronze - but most of the time the choice of tools and materials has a lot to do with the result.