bricolage
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It "loves us" because it is inevitable; we "love it" as a way of mastering, by ingenious bricolage, the language that saturates us anyway.
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- noun Something made or put together using whatever materials happen to be available: "Even the decor is a bricolage, a mix of this and that” (Los Angeles Times).
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It "loves us" because it is inevitable; we "love it" as a way of mastering, by ingenious bricolage, the language that saturates us anyway.
— Papa -
Mason & Dixon is, in short, a kind of bricolage of eighteenth-century science, religion, philosophy, myth, fable, and superstition, all treated on the same narrative plane, as equally true and equally fantastic.
— Entropology -
His stories are a registration of a certain kind of churning mind, cerebral fragments stitched together in the bricolage fashion of beatnik poetry.
— How He Wrote His Songs -
While these two sadly never legally available records are the founding documents of modern audio bricolage, they also share almost nothing in common except for beats and pieces of G.L.O.B.E. & Whiz Kid's "Play That Beat Mr DJ".
— The Wire -
"glass" warm up you're going to be happy you gave this the chance to grow on you. bricolage - bricolage there's seems to be a pattern in scottish music which has veins part bitter and part raucous. this glaswegian band has created an album of poppy goodness that every once and a while bites back. i'm trying to avoid using sour patch kids as a reference ... the big pink - a history of love with vocals that swoon and swell with shards of guitar and drums, this album is a sonic gem. by far one of my favorites of the year, a history of love lives up to its bravado.
— Free People Clothing Boutique Blog
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- French, from bricole, trifle, from Old French, catapult, from Old Italian briccola, of Germanic origin.
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/ (brēˌkō-läzhˈ, brĭkˌō-)/
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