fetish

Cusk describes these spaces in great detail, as if they were fetish objects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Mr. Armitage distinguishes himself by refusing the fetish of incompleteness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

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

In both films, guns become truly dangerous when they become a fetish: an object worshipped for its supposed power and symbolic meaning.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

But the mothers tell him no, no, they had already tied the nkisi around the child’s neck or wrist, a fetish from the Nganga Kuvudundu to ward off evil.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Tupper’s Mick, at the mercy of his brittle fetishes, may be the most believable of this quartet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Former President Lazarus Chakwera insists the canines, trained to detect weapons, black-magic fetishes and other potential threats, are key members of his security detail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026

Rust Cohle slow dances with murmurings about Carcosa in Season 1, and the anthology’s creator Nic Pizzolatto spiced up the mystique by depositing backwoods fetishes near crime scenes.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024

The images were commodities of the humblest, most populist sort, not rarefied art-market fetishes.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

The witch woman buried fetishes in secret places, took her payment, and departed in her mule cart.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead