erotize

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erotize

[er´o-tīz]

to endow with erotic meaning or significance.

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Like Locrine, Pericles erotizes both political tyranny and corrupted earthly will.

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Encouraging the view of Mary's "radical" communism as faddish, the newsreel erotizes her turn away from capitalism as a "spurning [of] the boys of La Salle Street and the Gold Coast" and capped by a close-up of "the smiling girl kissing the man" (32), who the reader later learns is Erlone, the text's literal red herring (158).

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Yet it also reveals how these cultural practices are somewhat contested by the powerful practices of the media, whose (mis)representation of Baianidade often erotizes and objectifies Afro-Brazilian women and ignores the intricate skills involved in the preparation of Comida de Santo (holy food).