totemic

Example Sentences

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"These things that I have built are totemic creatures but also prayer for the existence and continuation of the existence of creatures and insects."

From BBC

For his followers, Nemtsov is a totemic figure in Russian political life -- seen as a once-future leader who might have taken the country on a different path.

From Barron's

Mandelson, a totemic figure on the left of British politics, was photographed being escorted from a property in London by police officers.

From The Wall Street Journal

Picasso’s Cubism introduced Lam not only to European modernism but also to its sources—African masks and totemic art, to which Lam, understandably, felt a familial connection.

From The Wall Street Journal

He said the case "became sort of totemic of the distraction of issues that it felt like a different part of government were fascinated by".

From BBC