How to pronounce“totem”in English

the totem pole.

And I found the totem, and it was really-- didn't look that great.

Arthur's got a totem.

If Ariadne touched his totem, she might get inkling about how it's weighted in the real world.

That was her totem.

There's another totem. Eames' totem, the poker chip.

That's his totem.

They had Eames' totem on display.

But Cobb's totem is backwards.

When Ariadne calls totems an "elegant solution for keeping track of reality,"--this is right after he'd asked to see hers and she said, "No, you can't see it."

All the other totems, how they behave in the real world is unique, and in the dream is ordinary.

Is that really how totems work?

Are you carrying some sort of a totem?

She was second on the totem pole.

I was like low man on the totem pole.

Imagine being at the bottom of the totem pole in the United States, and you're born in a county in Mississippi that doesn't score as well.

And then you've got the totem pole.

Kind of lowest on the totem pole.

And this is how his totem works.

Others have suggested that Cobb's totem is not really the top.

profits if you wanted to have a totem for for Reproductive Freedom as a fundament Al human right they would the mama Grizzlies would be up

and also applying more colors and African totems, which is where the story came from originally, and make him look a little bit more optimistic

Think about how the other totems work.

But with each one of these totems, notice that their behavior in the real world is unique.

over Too Tall perhaps too proud totems of a city Two Towers erected to be each other's image indistinguishable somber doubles each dying the same death

We never think as people at the low end of the totem pole that we can negotiate.

It doesn't have to be something like a totem in which we're passing on cultural information by carving it on wood.

But that the people that were low on the totem pole, the people that were really just trying to survive, they wanted to help us.

Now I'd gone to to photograph this old totem that had fallen down.

'Cause Cobb's top was not the only totem in the movie.

You're never supposed to let anyone else see how your totem works.

You don't even want anyone else to touch your totem.

This is also why Ariadne refuses to let Cobb touch her totem, the bishop.

You shouldn't let anyone know how your totem works."

So now, the totem is no good for telling him whether or not he's in one of her dreams because now she knows how it works.

And the whole thing about having Mal's totem was just in remembrance of her and wasn't actually his totem.

And the hope is that these monuments can serve as a totem inspiring humans to think about how we can make generational contributions

history of the world it is Iconic it is totemic it is it is Google after all um I also when I went I did finally go to

think I was really just thinking about where I was on the totem pole, and that took over the way I was doing things in a certain way.

But the exceptionalist myth goes hand in hand overseas with something that has been the totem for the foreign policy community in the U.S. since World War II which is stability.

Ariadne's got a totem.

So for example, Arthur's totem is the loaded die.

So, his wedding ring's not even his totem, or his wedding ring is his totem?

beings did in those types of circumstances is that the lower guys on the totem pole kind of bonded together to kill a person who was too violent or too aggressive or exercising

Most importantly, what this means is that totems can only tell you that you're not in someone else's dream.

thing I seem to be seeing everything slightly differently its sort of totemic

- Do you have a sense if that's a container or is it just like a totem?

frankly it's been very difficult because the charter school industry in this country is a religious totem

You were really the lowest on the totem pole.