fetish

Example Sentences

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Instead, Fehlbaum fills the frame with his fetish for tactile objects: stopwatches, soldering irons, stacks of sandwiches, dot-matrix printers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 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

Like Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s similar cinematic fetish object “Grindhouse,” these two movies often veer too far into outright parody, which breaks the retro spell.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2023

He always made a fetish of lateness, to indicate that his life was crammed with many things, all of them more important than I was, and today is no exception.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood