How To Use Totemic In A Sentence
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A lot of the foods that we connect with African-Americans, whether totemically, whether positively or negatively, are indeed and in fact foods from the continent.
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The consubstantial kindreds known as totemic groups include both human and non-human kin.
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In Paul's narrative, the hero is theConstitution -- a totemic symbol representing the Founding Fathers.
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How could the ultimate scientist have been seemingly hornswoggled by a totemic psuedoscience like alchemy, which in its commonest rendering is described as the desire to transform lead into gold?
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This totemic commitment was designed to make Labour seem cuddly and unthreatening, but has already been breached by the increase in national insurance in the 2002 budget - a rise in income tax in all but name.
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The digital age has been predominantly focused on the spatial dimension of recombinant, connective technologies, a preoccupation crystallized in the totemic cyberspace of the computer network.
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It is something talismanic, totemic, intangible, all-consuming, corrosive, compulsive, elusive, indefinable.
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Such a vigil might involve fasting and an all-night experience outdoors, during which the initiate comes in direct contact with the gods, discovers his or her own power and connects with tutelary, totemic or guardian spirits.
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The front door of Farmer's residence was made of fir carved in Haida totemic designs.
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The sculptures contrast with the pressed earth brick and rusted iron used in the main structure, natural materials in keeping with the building's reference to the totemic animal of the area, the spiky-tailed goanna.
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If you missed Jon Snow monstering Alistair Darling, watch here — absolutely brilliant: and totemic.
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The poem begins in medium range… Then the scene dissolves to a North African desert where the truncated legs of a statue, brutal and totemic, loom up at center screen.
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He decorated his Christmas cards with totemic animals copied from Aboriginal rock galleries, not sheep and oxen kneeling in prayer around a manger.
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The bonuses paid to senior executives at RBS and Lloyds, which the government bailed out during the credit crisis, have become a totemic issue as the U.K.'s main political parties jostle to show which of them has the fairest economic policies.
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A mythology of looming threats has created an insatiable appetite for security, which then has to be assuaged through totemic gestures.
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In Britain it has totemic and commercial clout.
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Colorado Plateau sandstone is nearly totemic in texture and color: voluptuously carved by wind and water, bared to a glory of sunset colors.
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But it's a testament to his totemic presence and charisma that he's entirely convincing.
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_; marvellous powers attributed to the remote ancestors of the _alcheringa_ or dream times, 103 _sq. _; the Wollunqua, a mythical water-snake, ancestor of a totemic clan of the Warramunga tribe, 104-106; religious character of the belief in the Wollunqua, 106.
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In four years he had gone from nobody to totemic figure, each new direction he took wrong-footing fans who were desperately trying to keep pace with him.
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When choosing red we are not choosing to be strumpets, harlots, hookers, liars, and witches, but rather to wear their totemic color, the shade of Mars as well as that of heartbreak, to see how we look.
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But in any war over ideas, symbols matter as much as practicalities and foundation hospitals have thus become totemic.
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In Britain it has totemic and commercial clout.
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This has exasperated Pepper: ‘If Holyrood cannot verify [wood sourcing], then this totemic building with its fine aspirations of ethical purchasing will have to be dismissed as greenwash,’ he said.
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Commentary from 1861 to the present is examined in order to establish that the avunculate does indeed reflect matrilineal kinship structure, which in turn suggests that a full-scale totemic kinship system prevailed in prehistoric Germania.
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Now in regard to the nature of these remote totemic ancestors of the _alcheringa_ or dream times, the ideas of the natives are very hazy; they do not in fact clearly distinguish their human from their totemic nature; in speaking, for example, of a man of the kangaroo totem they seem unable to discriminate sharply between the man and the animal: perhaps we may say that what is before their mind is a blurred image, a sort of composite photograph, of
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
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totemic object
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A totemic warrior who strikes foes with weapons imbued with elemental power.
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Stuffed to the edges with dozens of symbolic and didactic creatures and props, the blanket sized, totemic kaleidoscopes - each rendered in firmly cut but onion-skin-thin Japanese mulberry paper - teem with febrile life.
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Like bookends to the main event, he added orderly and totemic panels of more intimate scale, frosted over by a deliquescent rust applied like wash to gatherings of yet more lost things.
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There are six of them in total, one hundred and fifty foot tall totemic spires of Growth Bone, Calcine, and Blossom Glass, bedecked on all sides with terraces, platforms and loggias, sun-bleached and standing to attention like nine pins spilt upon the desert or deep sea hydro-thermal vents rising from unfathomed depths.
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Among these patterns are those that cross-cut human and other species, creating the consubstantial kindreds known as totemic groups.