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Marsak, who admits to “a fetish for old, lost Los Angeles,” once called the Beaux-Arts hotel a “great gray monument to grinding attrition.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Instead, Fehlbaum fills the frame with his fetish for tactile objects: stopwatches, soldering irons, stacks of sandwiches, dot-matrix printers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

"Or it was chic the first time Lloyd did it, but now it just looks like a fetish for ventilation ducts."

From BBC ● May 24, 2024

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

Our interconnected society resembles every worst part of civilization throughout history, but with a few new fetishes of its own.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 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

Someone watching “Lynch/Oz” isn’t likely to need reminding that the history of movies is a history of other movies, or that lots of directors have thematic and visual fetishes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

Perhaps more than painting, Surrealism’s most representative works of art are objects: curious little fetishes, usually made of found materials and sized to hold in your hands, that collided with everyday good taste.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 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