fetish

Example Sentences

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"Or it was chic the first time Lloyd did it, but now it just looks like a fetish for ventilation ducts."

From BBC • May 24, 2024

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

Unfortunately, in her case, Hollywood’s fetish for famous descendents fell short.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2023

The movie is admiring, but not fawning, and makes a fetish neither of Fox’s suffering nor his equanimity — sometimes amounting to black humor — in dealing with it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 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