fetish
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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
He’d go on to learn the craft under an L.A. fetish latex designer before starting Bustedbrand on his own terms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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
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
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
We must all reexamine our beliefs in a critical and dispassionate spirit to determine whether we are apprehending reality or clinging to mental fetishes.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
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
People flocked to the roads, banging with sticks and fetishes on the hoods of the army convoy that took him away.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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