The prison dialogue is vivid and laced with satire, but reveals to the reader the human detritus that surrounds capital punishment.

It has to be just about the most melancholy job in Government, cataloguing the Treasury's human detritus.

Now, it shows every sign of becoming a permanent penal colony for the human detritus of the campaign against terrorism.

At this point von Buhler began utilizing unconventional media in her art: video projection, living fauna, found objects, human detritus, and electronic audio.

"The pelado belongs to the lowest of social categories, and represents the human detritus of the big city."

Years and years of human detritus, forged into earth.

But just to see the landscape of bones mixed with clothing, skulls strewn in the splay of human detritus and other remains is chilling.

In turn they knelt and washed away as much of the human detritus as they could.

I am standing on a manmade mountain, a 260ft monument to human detritus.