cult object
Example Sentences
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For a long while, the book was more easily accessible than the movie, which became something of a cult object, in part due to its relative unavailability.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021
It also became a status symbol — Dyson recently released a version of the Supersonic plated in 23.75-karat gold that sells for $500 — and a cult object.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2018
Van Gogh’s ear was sacralised as a cult object in the age of Ginsberg, Pollock and Kirk Douglas, when art really was a pursuit of expression, truth and revelation.
From The Guardian • Oct. 31, 2016
Its life as a cult object began in the early 1980s, when Stuart Cornfeld—now running Ben Stiller’s production company, but at the time working at Fox—read it, loved it, and started passing it around.
From Slate • Nov. 15, 2012
In California and New York, in the advertising world and in Silicon Valley, it became a kind of cult object that matched the stripped-down aesthetic of the new economy.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
