totem
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The opening scene of the 2023 film “Barbie” shows little girls awestruck by the bosomy totem, who appears in their desert landscape like the towering obelisk in “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
A single totem pole appears in the far right of the tight frame, as stiff and formal as Fred.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Fashioning your lead actor as a totem to project your thoughts about apathy and loneliness would be a risky move for anyone other than writer-director Amanda Kramer, who’s made a career out of brazen chicness.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
He has become the totem of this game, but he's 24th man on Saturday.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
He had slept poorly because he had considered making a canoe instead of a totem.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
The three men accumulated totems of fabulous wealth: mansions in Manhattan and the Hamptons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Early in his career Noguchi was identified as a sculptor, known for modernist abstractions—enigmas in wood, stone, metals, plaster, ceramic and aluminum—that conjure totems, boulders, edifices and artifacts, while synthesizing Western and Eastern traditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
In his work exist iconic signs of beloved local establishments — like the Playpen — the blinding glint reflecting off downtown’s skyline, telephone poles regarded as totems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
The resurgent Wallabies, driven on ferociously by Rob Valetini and Will Skelton, their returning totems, shocked the Lions to their very core in surging into that huge lead.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025
People who ate their totems lost their teeth or went blind or became sterile or occasionally turned into the forbidden animal.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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