fetishize

By changing a few extraneous details, O'Brien demonstrates how the very act of looking was already fetishized.

The glass curtain wall has become a stale emblem of global corporate architecture, and transparency is no longer fetishized with the utopian zeal that defined early Modernism.

No other nation has so fetishized consumption, nor worked harder to forget that consumption ought to serve life, not the reverse.

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.

I'm not saying we have to be puritans and I'm not a fundamentalist, but as a Catholic and as a father of a daughter, I too get angry at the way women are treated and fetishized in our culture.

It was only in the '60s that Southern, already approaching middle age in a decade that fetishized youth, fully came into his own as a countercultural hipster.

Bobo culture and bobo society is not exactly a grand Hegelian synthesis, since the ability of bourgeois society to transform everything into a fetishized commodity is not aufgehoben but retained in a superficially new, hip form.

Post-modernism, in fact, uncritically and naively reflects the capitalist world of fetishized commodities, which, like the words of the post-modernists, enjoy a ghostly life of their own.

Background of the fallout from South Korea's recent economic meltdown is ever-present but never fetishized.

Anne Askew's testimony, and the fetishized history of her martyrdom, is the subject of the first chapter, which argues that those who sought to claim Askew for a Reforming tradition silenced her critique of secular institutions.

Holding flowers while smiling and feigning interest is hard work even when you are not being evaluated for posture, poise and fetishized body parts--as I expect I wasn't.

he [Charles] empowers their [women's] sexuality when it is his own identity and the nation's that must be concentrated, consolidated and fetishized. (127)

Severin's fetishized interest in women in paintings and sculptures is gradually transferred onto a real woman, whilst Castorp's interest in the live Madame Chauchat becomes fetishized onto a painting.