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

Gonzalez was clearly influenced by Mario Bava and Dario Argento’s highly stylized, operatic violence, but his queering of horror feels very now rather than fetishistically retro.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2020

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