Sentence Examples:
It is the sacrosanct fetish.
The homestead was a fetish with her.
Sleep was her fetish, panacea and art.
Running Elk had become a fetish to her.
Purposeless destruction is a fetish of this people.
Those who love books easily become fetish worshipers.
To return after this digression to fetish stones.
This invocation written, is carried as an amulet or fetish.
For him a Constitution is a kind of omnipotent fetish.
It was a fetish with him; he was a fanatic.
The temple was decorated with flags and various fetishes.
I suppose that your African gets fond of his fetish.
In the interests of that fetish, crime even was excusable.
The grotesque objects were but symbols of the African fetish.
Zamenhof in refusing to make a fetish of slavish adherence to rule.
I am not convinced that we make a fetish of the preposterous.
Outside of occult or fetish-power, the Roman world was incredibly poor.
The savage beats his fetish when it is not complacent enough.
The tree is surrounded by small fetish huts and curious arcades.
This fetish system was very aptly called a plague of sacredness.
He remembered the African fetishes he had seen at Halliday's so often.
This also is an example of a talisman, and not of a fetish.
Briefly the custom still popular throughout Arabia, is African and Fetish.
Your particular kind of egotism leads you to make a fetish of magnanimity.
With him, sincerity in art was a fetish; in life, a superfluity.
You don't believe in that old fetish of baptismal regeneration, surely, Phyllis?
He then places the fetish in a buckskin bag over his heart.
It is practically a fetish, the tangible abode of the recipient of veneration.
Her mask made me feel I was paying tribute to an African fetish.
A few fetish stones, tended by some low-class menial, constitute her shrine.
The Africans have an exactly similar belief in the influence of fetish over disease.
On the ground before the door of the fetish lay six splendid tusks.
To this protective mimicry the fetish owes in part its power of survival.
They also wear a fetish, or charm, enclosed in a little red leather case.
The front of the wide stage was adorned by the hideous fetish idols.
Antonio are still in existence, and are venerated by the natives as powerful fetishes.
One of the fetishes of the present day is the theory of protective mimicry.
He was even more distraught than during the fetish performance of two hours earlier.
Sometimes these impressionable souls almost seem to make a sort of reputation for their fetish.
To what an illogical position we are driven by our fetish worship of college 'amateur athletics'!
Feeling quite white and clasping a fetish, Charlie sank all panting to the ground.
Some also subsisted on the lucky possession of a fetish, an idol compassionate to human sufferings.
To give time to translating good Latin into poor English is paying an extravagant homage to a fetish.
The savage, as is well known, will treat his fetish in the same inconsequential way.
This is the germ of the adoration of fetish stones as emblems of the fertilizing rains.
It is indeed a sort of fetish, and a belief that some mysterious power lurks within them.
In this manner the French language was enriched in 1760 by the new word fetish.
And yet I am going to scoff and say ugly words about this fetish of ours.
Each individual has his personal fetish, and it is carried in all hunting and warlike excursions.
Bonny looked longingly at his fetish; but gratitude and true love got the better of veneration.
I remember discoursing with a very charming French official on the difficulty of eradicating fetish customs.
Though they were such great originators, they cared nothing for the modern fetish of originality.
Sir Francis made an inarticulate noise which was a kind of tribute to the fetish of good form.
Little is known of all West African fetish, still less of that of these strange people.
She believed herself to be endowed with the gift of prophecy, and her fetish was Robespierre.
Here is no fetish about clothes; little concern for what we shall eat or what we shall drink.
In the present case the axe was sent as belonging to the fetish, to obtain our desires peaceably.
The fetish is generally an empty earthen pot, about nine inches in diameter, slung from the roof.
Keenness in fielding was a fetish with him; and to cut practice struck him as a crime.
It is when I try to take you practically at your word that I find you are mumbling a fetish.
Even the horses are provided with fetishes, in the shape of a deer's horn, to ensure their swiftness.
He believes in charms, amulets, fetishes, witchcraft, taboos, magic, and all the wondrous things he can conceive.
Retiring a few paces, he prostrates himself before this fetish that has defied his wrath and violence.
Not those who live a single life, or make a fetish of days, meats, clothes, and such things.
Of all fetishes which have misled humanity, perhaps none is responsible for more error than that of originality.
And he who attacks the fetish is forced to risk the odious imputation of attacking persons and regiments.
It is embodied in this way, as it was embodied in fetishes in the way described in the foregoing chapters.
The week as a period is no longer associated with astrological superstitions, nor the Sabbath rest enjoined as a fetish.
He seemed to breathe more quickly at the thought; he savored the words like a man aroused by a fetish.
It would be difficult for a philosopher to draw a distinction between an African "fetish" and a Papal relic.
The fetish might be ... even a trophy taken from a slain enemy, or a bird, animal, or reptile.
The taboo, the fetish, the totem, the oracle, and the myth are the very atmosphere of our being.
The conditioning of the sexual impulse to the parent ideal and the erotic fetish as factors which determine mating.
The erotic impulse may have its responses conditioned in many other ways than the building up of erotic fetishes.
The miners were killed by the heat of the shafts, and the mine was at once placed 'in fetish.'
Taking no notice of his words, with a slight reverence to the fetish, she passed on, beckoning to Alan.
Confidence in ourselves and in the natives will be our best panoply, and an English Testament our best fetish.'
The African fully knows the liability of his fetish to fail, but he equally fully knows its power.
The joy is in unholy worship of a fetish, the pain that there is no joy also deference to a fetish.
There can be little doubt that the drum was one of the very primitive fetishes of the aboriginal races.
History will nail your names to the gallows, together with the name of your fetish and of his military tail.
Learning is a kind of fetish, and it has no influence whatever upon the great inert mass of Chinese humanity.
Later she found that the wail was unnecessary, for the fetish pitied his worshiper and granted her prayer.
Truly we of the free world very narrowly escaped the fetish of efficiency which finally completely enslaved the Germans.
This Balance of Power, so often and so mysteriously alluded to by the diplomatic world, has become a veritable fetish.
All amulets partake of the nature of fetishes, and the remark is often heard that good luck resides in them.
She had the courage to cut through the bonds of humbug and to laugh at the fetishes of the herd.
We in the West make a fetish of "progress," which is the ethical camouflage of the desire to be the cause of changes.
Round and round she went in front of the hideous fetish: no dervish of the East could have danced more furiously.
It is the bible as a fetish, or as the best book, or as a weapon of persecution, that we wish to overthrow.
I beg you to understand that I make no pretension to a thorough knowledge of Fetish ideas; I am only on the threshold.
In short, the regalia are here fetishes, which confer a title to the throne and control the fate of the kingdom.
Just as the democrats made a sort of fetish of the words 'the people,' so you make one of the word 'proletariat.'
Although I confess that I came to look upon the thing as a kind of mascot, I put no trust in any fetish.
Their religion is frequently but a thin veneer of polish, worn to cover the arts of fetish worship and human sacrifice.
In hunting, if they find a stone or other object in the entrails of an animal they at once make a fetish of it.
I see you know nothing of fetish worship, remnants of which survive among us moderns in the form of just such souvenirs.
The first thing to be done was to pull down the stockade along the fetish road, to enable the transport to pass.
A piece of the rope which has been used by a hangman is a fetish reputed to be an almost certain passport to good luck.
Now the Diamond is a pretty hitch and a firm one, but it is by no means the fetish some people make of it.