fetish
Example Sentences
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Mr. Armitage distinguishes himself by refusing the fetish of incompleteness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
We are running on the energy of farmers’ labor and transmuting it into fetish object, and it feels almost beautiful on set in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024
Where many streaming mysteries make a fetish of style, depth, sociopolitical relevance and formal novelty, aiming to become conversation starters, the conversation around “Bad Monkey” might run simply like this:
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2024
Komfo Anokye was a powerful fetish priest - a person believed to act as a mediator between the spirit and living.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2023
His needs were obscure to me, and what I could perceive of them seemed to me ridiculous, laughable, like a fetish for lace-up shoes.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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