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- verb Present participle of
fetishize .
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Examples
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When you say "fetishizing" that narrows the other two sets to readers who take a particular aesthetic (exploitative or explicatory) to its max, so defining adventure junkies in a wider sense is kinda like saying there's these two junkies and this, well, occasional dabbler in drugs.
Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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When you say "fetishizing" that narrows the other two sets to readers who take a particular aesthetic (exploitative or explicatory) to its max, so defining adventure junkies in a wider sense is kinda like saying there's these two junkies and this, well, occasional dabbler in drugs.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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I like the Bruce/Selina interactions, but the Batman/Catwoman flirtations seem more like the kind of fetishizing that goes on in the Powers universe on a daily basis.
Top Five Batman Girlfriends | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Opening tonight in Brooklyn - an art exhibit based on obsolete Apple technology that examines the "fetishizing" of products that are soon discarded.
Cult of Mac 2010
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BSG has always been good at avoiding typical sci-fi junk such as fetishizing the technology.
Remarkable 2009
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By vilifying children and fetishizing bullying, we're blaming kids for a systemic, cultural problem and taking the onus off adults.
Elizabeth Perle: We Are The Real Bullies Elizabeth Perle 2011
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By vilifying children and fetishizing bullying, we're blaming kids for a systemic, cultural problem and taking the onus off adults.
Elizabeth Perle: We Are The Real Bullies Elizabeth Perle 2011
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By vilifying children and fetishizing bullying, we're blaming kids for a systemic, cultural problem and taking the onus off adults.
Elizabeth Perle: We Are The Real Bullies Elizabeth Perle 2011
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The deluxe pilot episode looks amazing, fetishizing the worldly stewardesses — that's what they were called then — in their crisp blue uniforms, white gloves and girdles as they jet around the world, seeking adventure and amour in the tradition of the best beach reads.
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It seems, in fact, there is even something of a parallel process in play in which the visual media -- Weiner having come clean with good prospects for riding this out -- gets to take over the fetishizing of the Congressman, it's own prurient interests driving their own creating and posting of tawdry pictures of him.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Media's Weiner Pictures: Who's Getting Dirty Now? Michael Shaw 2011
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