fetishistically
- a word derived from fetishism.
Example Sentences
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So when they hold guns, they do so almost lovingly or fetishistically, as if the rifle or the handgun is a beloved friend or a talisman of strength and authority.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2022
Fermor’s deeply layered narrative, as before, intersperses fetishistically beautiful descriptions with historical tidbits, personal asides, and fanciful imaginings.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2014
And yet the authors' straightforward cataloguing of bands and brands does tell you something about this most fetishistically materialistic of youth cults by showing how the mod's-eye can verge on myopia.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012
On Hitchcock’s Vertigo: “A mystery that only improves with knowledge of its ‘solution,’ Vertigo is the ultimate movie—a movie that is, after all, concerned with being hopelessly, obsessively, fetishistically in love with an image.”
From Time ● Jan. 5, 2012
Almost uniformly, they’re broodingly dark and ramrod stiff, the selection emphasizing Japanese brands that fetishistically recreate rugged American denim products of decades long gone.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2010
