totemic object. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The "totemic" prohibition in this instance really seems to have a hygienic origin. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
A totemic figure, Bemba first left Kinshasa for his northwestern. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Still, the totemic 8% growth mark will be at risk early next year. From Wordnik.com. [Checking China's Faulty Data] Reference
“Toola-un-guy,” the totemic rendering of which is now unknown. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
If so, it's a totemic sign of justhow desperate the incumbent Mayor's become. From Wordnik.com. [Poll skulduggery] Reference
In an age of totemic art, this was as naturalistic as the sculptor could make it. From Wordnik.com. [Iraq's (Most Precious) Most Wanted] Reference
That's why we told you about the totemic animals, and why we left you until last. From Wordnik.com. [Werehunter]
If what I heard is true, they believe their totemic animal actually led them here. From Wordnik.com. [Owlsight]
TIM LISTER, CNN CENTER: Roy Keane has been totemic for United over the last 12 years. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2005] Reference
The totemic election result on Tuesday is a message to all politicians that enough is enough. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
His great staring eyeballs, ship's figurehead of a nose, and totemic lips were awe-inspiring. From Wordnik.com. [Duma Key]
Walk into the main gallery and you find yourself in a dense forest of black totemic shapes. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Clothier: ACE Gallery: Three Artists] Reference
And so Frost was the sort of patron and -- and totemic presence at the conference for decades. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Frost: A Life] Reference
It also does nothing for the delicate math underpinning the totemic dividend, now yielding 10%. From Wordnik.com. [GE's Approaching Date With Destiny] Reference
The original beats have a totemic significance -- like the great standard chord sequences in jazz. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
If you missed Jon Snow monstering Alistair Darling, watch here — absolutely brilliant: and totemic. From Wordnik.com. [Darling gets Snowed under] Reference
These were rude representations of events, the symbols being chiefly the totemic devices of the tribes. From Wordnik.com. [Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41] Reference
Whatever its merits, their "Top 1%" chart has become a totemic obsession in progressive policy circles. From Wordnik.com. [The Obama Rosetta Stone] Reference
The first is totemic and tactical (how to get ahead at the office, to win friends and influence people). From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Power] Reference
Apple's products are totemic because they emerge fully formed - designed from a singular, secretive vision. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Schwartz: Applesauce] Reference
I've developed my own totemic practices surrounding my 18-month-old son David's red and gold Spanish jersey. From Wordnik.com. [Adopting Spain's Soccer Neuroses] Reference
"When you're in the new country, sort-of mundane stuff becomes charged with an almost totemic power," he says. From Wordnik.com. [He Finds His Readers -- and Acclaim] Reference
Hitler employed a number of psychological — indeed, totemic — devices to bind the Army to him more closely. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
The letter has no talismanic or totemic value – it hasn't made writing any easier – but I absolutely love it. From Wordnik.com. [Lawrence, a letter and me] Reference
Our iPhones not only play music and make phone calls, but they also have become totemic objects, imbued with techno-voodoo. From Wordnik.com. [In iPad We Trust] Reference
There is something totemic about its independence, something the Conservatives can express clear and unequivocal support for. From Wordnik.com. [Why Georgia matters] Reference
So I thought I'd write, you know, five or ten pages on the religious right and how it's just sort of this vague, totemic symbol. From Wordnik.com. [Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right] Reference
The unstoppable force of the righteous would then surely have two totemic figureheads to lead them back to the top table of power. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
Matsui is held in totemic esteem at this Japanese curry house, so much so that the joint's very name derives from his jersey number. From Wordnik.com. [Hideki Matsui: An Ageless Talent] Reference
Propp, developed P. Saintyves 'ritualistic hypothesis: he argued that the folktale conserved the memory of totemic initiation rites. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
No totemic spirits would come to their aid; they had placed themselves entirely under the protection of the Great Spirit of the Clan. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
The totemic importance attached to the word “responsibility” also clouds thinking, as they start with the word and work backwards. From Wordnik.com. [Reasons to have faith in Cameron and Osborne] Reference
Her best sculptures feel transformative; they have a totemic rise and purpose, as well as an organic sense of expansion and wholeness. From Wordnik.com. [A Virtuoso With Line] Reference
For these guys, not unlike the seriously religious, books have a totemic, magical quality that demands at least a symbolic genuflection. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hartman: The Gangs Of Readers In Prison] Reference
She was affected by the monumental and totemic qualities of Maya art, elements of which she subsequently incorporated into her own work. From Wordnik.com. [Louise Nevelson.] Reference
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