fetish

Example Sentences

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We are running on the energy of farmers’ labor and transmuting it into fetish object, and it feels almost beautiful on set in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024

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

"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

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