fetish
Example Sentences
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Ranging in age from toddlers to teens, these girls speak with a moral clarity that cuts through any defense of this country’s carceral fetish.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025
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 was a powerful fetish priest - a person believed to act as a mediator between the spirit and living.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 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
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
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