fetish

Example Sentences

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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

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

The Masks appeared demoralized by the destruction of their most powerful fetish.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer