fetish
Example Sentences
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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
The night's most outrageous costumes came courtesy of Croatian shock rockers Let 3, who dressed in leather fetish gear before stripping down to white underwear.
From BBC
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
Cropped at the waist and the thighs, the study is certainly a fetish object.
From New York Times
With great subversiveness, Portis consistently abjured America’s postwar fetishes for progress, social mobility and affluence.
From Washington Post
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