fetish

Example Sentences

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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, the man said to be responsible for the tree, was a powerful fetish priest - a person believed to act as a mediator between the spirit and living.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 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 movie is admiring, but not fawning, and makes a fetish neither of Fox’s suffering nor his equanimity — sometimes amounting to black humor — in dealing with it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2023

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

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