fetishize
fetishize
definition
verb
an author who fetishizes privacy
have an excessive and irrational commitment to or obsession with (something).
example
But maybe we also 'fetishize' characters like him because they symbolize possibility.
But I guess because I never had that, I 'fetishize' it, sort of.
As we all know, when it comes to sex, men in particular tend to 'fetishize' body parts and clothing.
I have a following there that is mostly teenage girls, because they're the ones who really 'fetishize' gay pornography and everything gay.
Movies and songs and TV - even CNN, these days - 'fetishize' love.
I would suggest that this cultural fantasy is the symptom of one model for male creativity - the desire to disavow woman's essential Lack by 'fetishizing' an ordinary object.
If it's even slightly butch, they'll 'fetishise' it.
As such, my own explanation is probably somewhat incomplete: in a culture with little privacy, intimate moments are 'fetishized' .
I don't think I'll miss the fragility, but object 'fetishization' has been with us for so long that I have to imagine something else will take its place.
No longer would the balance of payments be 'fetishized' as the OEEC was informed that the next balance of payments crisis would be met through the depletion of reserves rather than by deflationary measures.
The key to watching the film was to realize it wasn't the story of the titular Lisbon sisters; rather it was the story of the boys who 'fetishized' them.
Nonetheless, Claire 'fetishizes' the black body as she projects her own preoccupation with flesh upon her lover, Paupaulekejo.
By way of incessant close-ups of Roberts, the film 'fetishizes' her aloneness and her independence.
Antipop obviously aspires to pick up electro-hip-hop where Afrika Bambataa left off - analog synthesizers are practically 'fetishized' on this album, and the beats are all curt drum machines.
Richard Prince 'fetishized' the classic T-Bird ear hood in a set of gray fiberglass sculptures.
I must say I'm extremely surprised that some people have interpreted my flip ‘vulnerability is sexy’ comment to mean that I'm in some way 'fetishising' this boy's condition.
Is there any known overlap between necrophiliacs and people that 'fetishise' sex with dolls and robots?
Often, it is this image that elicits the most delight from the science fiction film fan: the moment in which the technology itself is foregrounded and the visual drama is 'fetishized' .
The dominant strain of the American left, on the other hand, certainly since the decline of the socialist left, 'fetishizes' fairness, openness, and diversity.
Black women in pornography are keenly aware of how their sexuality is 'fetishized' and marketed in films that are distributed and seen all over the United States and elsewhere in the world.
She built an ostentatious mansion, wore designer fashions, and 'fetishized' the color pink long before Mary Kay Ash, with a pink convertible and even a pink canary.
Whitman has produced music that (particularly as a collection) neither 'fetishizes' the scholarly pallor of early electronic music nor attempts to radically recast the tools or to play clever games with them.
Mailer 'fetishizes' bravery, which has sometimes made him seem silly.
Also, Christian Bale is brilliant, and not just because of the astounding physical commitment to the role, his body being 'fetishised' like as if he were some muscular Man-God from a Tony Scott flick.
To enact social transgression and a kind of hyperrealism, obscene language 'fetishizes' certain words related to sex; the obscene word substitutes for the body part in question but, in the process, acquires the status of a fetish.
After September 11 everyone was talking about masculinity, mostly because any heterosexual woman who hadn't previously 'fetishized' firemen now felt compelled to do so, if only out of gratitude.
Meanwhile, they milk her god-given attributes to mobilize armies of budding wannabes by sanitizing her sexuality, and legions of men by 'fetishizing' her purity.
By delineating a distinction between being ‘in the Colony’ versus ‘of the people,’ Phayne 'fetishizes' the boundary lines that Rye draws in relation to class privilege.
The necrophile might 'fetishise' the feel of dead skin, or the point of death, or the idea of being a vampire.
Feminist film critics have seen this phenomenon (clinically known as fetishism) operating in the cinema; the camera 'fetishizes' the female form.
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