The first category is the most common and is, I expect, what you identify as 'fetishistic'. From Wordnik.com. [Good Fanfic?] Reference
I realize, in some ways, it's kind of fetishistic thing to associate the presentation of music with the presentation and packaging. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
Mark Trail is stuck in a 1950's aesthetic with some kind of fetishistic determination, but nobody, nobody, NOBODY still has a lamp like the one next to Cherry. From Wordnik.com. [Baltiblogs]
If not, why the fetishistic care in selecting the books?. From Wordnik.com. [The Best That Has Been Thought and Said] Reference
I can get quite fetishistic about those if I let my mind wander. From Wordnik.com. [Be My Enemy]
For Haraway, Western culture is extremely fetishistic, mistaking. From Wordnik.com. [Intersections Between Pragmatist and Continental Feminism] Reference
These blogs read like voyeuristic, fetishistic made-up nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? Part Three - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
His interest in classic Palm Beach architecture borders on fetishistic. From Wordnik.com. [Less Is Maier] Reference
I have a fetishistic love of prints though and religiously fill my photo albums. From Wordnik.com. [One of these days…] Reference
The 52-week high stock price has always had a fetishistic role in merger discussions. From Wordnik.com. [One Key Number in Pricing a Deal: The 52-Week High] Reference
What does it say about us -- this fetishistic fascination with a loved and hated woman?. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Belzer: Tear Heard 'Round the World] Reference
Ah, Japan … we love you, but your fetishistic fascination with robots kind of weirds us out. From Wordnik.com. [Sony says, “Instead of a price cut, how about a robot?”] Reference
I did one of those fetishistic unboxing posts for Kotaku, because that is how I roll over there. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
This week, I take a look at fetishistic character creation systems, primarily Soul Calibur IV's. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
In the same way, I think these fetishistic characters in video games stick out like a sore thumb. From Wordnik.com. [Exposing Lara's... Equanimity?] Reference
Ms.B. PIPETTE: No, and that's pretty - at the same time, you know, it was kind of very fetishistic. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry Sound of the Pipettes] Reference
It is Santa Claus and magic carpets ... and the occasional potty-mouthed stranger in fetishistic garb. From Wordnik.com. [Rita J. King: Sex, Money and Fame in Second Life -Yes Eureka, there is a Santa Claus] Reference
But the real frontier is closed, so that impulse is indulged in ever more arcane, even fetishistic ways. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years and Counting: The Death of the High Frontier] Reference
Xooglers: Dr. Jim led us past cage after cage of cooled processing power, was of fetishistic efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
The story revolves around his seductions, which can turn into elaborate episodes of fetishistic invention. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Bergman: Movies Houses Span the Globe] Reference
Other subjects were the beggar kids, tattooed and pierced, who "become very fetishistic about train riding.". From Wordnik.com. [Photographer Justine Kurland on a road trip with her son, capturing life along the rails] Reference
"Look, I have a fan-fetishistic relationship with it, too, but you have to get space from that," Snyder says. From Wordnik.com. [Filming the Unfilmable: Behind the Scenes of the Watchmen Movie] Reference
Albeit, many of these tales have fetishistic aspects but the Infanta next takes a scrubbed chamberpot to fill. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review: In Sleeping Beauty’s Bed IV « Colleen Anderson] Reference
One of the reasons I hardly ever viewed Ross's "Film 200n" is because of his overt love of fetishistic movies. From Wordnik.com. [Let Mark Kermode present Film 2008] Reference
Good for finding out useless information about arcane subjects and satisfying the most fetishistic of curiosities. From Wordnik.com. [Sites: Electronic Dish] Reference
BLOOM: She's got a lot of claims to these fetishistic games that he was involved in, controlling, manipulating her. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2009] Reference
The problem is that our interest in individual chefs becomes fetishistic, larger than the sum of any of their dishes. From Wordnik.com. [Heston Blumenthal to launch food range for Waitrose] Reference
This places their aesthetics on the same non-fetishistic -- i.e. non-extremist -- level as that of "adventure junkies". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
Do you promise to wear torn slip dresses, smeared makeup and a constant expression of Fiona Apple-style fetishistic victimhood?. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Problem] Reference
Now we've got Hot Fuzz, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's painstakingly fetishistic, overlong ode to the trashy movies out right now. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Interviews. Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.] Reference
What is this fetishistic fixation on Muslims and the more socially conservative cultural expressions retained in some Muslim communities?. From Wordnik.com. [The Muslims I Know] Reference
This quick chat served to remind me that while car status here is different than at Microsoft, it is no less hierarchical and fetishistic. From Wordnik.com. [Microserfs]
And when she spoke, it was often with a fetishistic utterance in a monotheistic falsetto which almost had the effect of startling her relations into temporary propriety. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892] Reference
The actor-client of Marty's was either the kind of guy who didn't drink and threw lots of parties, or drank and collected various flavors of ethanol with fetishistic fervor. From Wordnik.com. [The Sun from Under Water] Reference
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