How to Use fetishism in a Sentence

fetishism

noun

• Oh, and the play’s about foot fetishism and master-slave role play, too.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 17 May 2021
• Not everyone is down with designer fetishism for the under-10 set, of course.
  — Bobby Doherty, The Cut, 2 May 2018
• Themes of masochism are everywhere in his books, as is a foot-fetishism grounded in self-abasement.
  — Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• The outburst of Nazi fetishism caught some longtime observers off-guard, even with the rapper’s long history of poke-in-the-eye trolling.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2023
• Gleaming in a way that felt unhealthy — not with curiosity, but with fetishism.
  — Vulture, 24 May 2023
• In mining the past, Soft Science sees new possibilities rather than a chance to indulge in retro fetishism.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2018
• The Beach Boys’ fetishism still resonates today, possibly because the cars of that era remain un-car-like in their coolness and appeal.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• Early on, his OnlyFans page was a bacchanal of foot fetishism.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2019
• While that show evoked the high drama of a Harlequin novel, Celine’s flirted openly with fetishism.
  — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022
• While the fetishism for the pop music of a more innocent time can be cloying, Clarke’s emotional gloom has a way of leavening that sweetness with some real acid.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 17 May 2018
• Gun fetishism is not part of the particular pain of British life, but last week Britain demonstrated the power of anti-Semitism to reshape politics.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• This is where condescension, or fetishism, or novelty begins to creep in.
  — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 19 Apr. 2017
• Arguably, it’s intensified into a fetishism of how trans bodies look.
  — Emma Flint, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021
• The height of heels today is as ridiculous as Marie Antoinette’s wigs, a form of tulip-mania although far more painful and potentially harmful. Foot fetishism, anyone?
  — Vogue, 24 June 2019
• Today, online, pornography is so extreme and so varied, with such expressions of fetishism and other things that boys are seeing.
  — Laura McGann, Vox, 25 Mar. 2018
• The effect is David Cronenberg’s body horror meets Guy Bourdin’s fashionable fetishism.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
• What is sadder in this specific case is that art, for those who are receptive to it, can actually resist this kind of commodity fetishism (as the Marxists call it).
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• But Buck’s racial fetishism, theoretically easier to keep behind the bedroom door, was an open secret too.
  — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2020
• But the shops without the attractions also reduced the parks to their most unsavory aspects, that is places that exist as little more to buy products and encourage fetishism among collectors.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
• Their reasons for buying and selling and owning are rooted in a shrewd business sense and a deep love for art, but also seem to involve elements of fetishism and unresolved Freudian complexes.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2021
• In an era of luxury fetishism, high-end goods must have a story, a narrative, and the tale of Enzo Ferrari rising from army mule skinner to motor sports immortal is as good as anything Fielding ever wrote.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2017
• By that point, Gucci fetishism had become parodic and comical.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• The project satirizes the graphics fetishism of the video-game industry, where rendering water has long been a benchmark of technical sophistication.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 30 June 2023
• In its most recent season, though, the show’s ever-present commodity fetishism and obsessive materialism curdled a bit, going from joke to simple fact.
  — Daniel D'addario, Time, 12 Sep. 2017
• Bachelder’s conceit combines two forms of particularly male obsession: the mental escapism of fantasy sports and the tactile fetishism of Civil War re-enactments.
  — John Williams, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2016
• Our preliminary data indicate that there may be a rising display in foot-fetishism in the pornographic literature.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2012
• The dialogue lands somewhere between hardcore bullet fetishism and perpetual irony.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 20 May 2021
• One undercurrent of the biography is an oblique fetishism that wafted into Ray’s romantic relationships and work.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 7 Oct. 2021
• Schorr positions her subjects on a domestic stage of costumes and uniforms, love of fetishism, and curiosity to understand human beings in their contradictions.
  — Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2022
• In wary opposition to the construction are the nomadic Tuareg people, who believe that permanent habitations are antithetical to the spirit of the region and, being Muslim, consider the settlers’ worship of gold to be a form of fetishism.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024