How to Use bricolage in a Sentence

bricolage

noun

• The whole house is an act of bricolage, from the surrealist staircase to the adobe embankment dripping with ferns against the neighboring plot.
  — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2021
• For, this book reminds us, belonging is always bricolage.
  — Crawford Gribben, WSJ, 13 June 2019
• The performance, composed in thematic layers, is itself a kind of bricolage.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Science is a bricolage in which no single gene or feature can explain human evolution.
  — Wired, 14 July 2022
• From the music to the movie stills, the restaurant seems like an exercise in pop culture bricolage, meant to pique one’s interest without sustaining it with anything meaningful.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 13 June 2019
• But her poetic bricolage took on a new urgency as the memory of war was reactivated.
  — Sophie Pinkham, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• Their garments are a hodgepodge of deadstock textiles and mismatched notions that evoke Mike Kelley's playful bricolage artworks and Rodarte’s artisanally holy knitwear.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2018
• Kinships with craftwork, toys, folk or outsider art, and bricolage inevitably suggest themselves, only to be plowed under by the rigor of an aesthetic as sophisticated as that of an Alexander Calder or a Joseph Cornell.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• Gigi’s kitchen, with its dyed-pasta-facade cabinetry, was just part of a larger bricolage motif that included a bathroom plastered with New Yorker magazine covers.
  — Collier Schorr; Styling By Ludivine Poiblanc, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 July 2021
• But her art retained a visceral energy and an underlying gruesomeness, and in the sixties her bricolage works again incorporated direct references to the body, or body parts.
  — The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• How cities manage gentrification can yield an engaging and integrated bricolage, or not.
  — Bruce Fuller, The Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2019
• Just as Instagram’s nostalgic filters and the bricolage identity-curation platforms like Pinterest were catching on, here was someone gluing together disparate references using a Super 8 aesthetic.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024