Sentence examples for not vicarious from inspiring English sources

The old Pound, dramatic to the end, made a virtue of his wrongness, and claimed it with a sort of depressed glee that may or may not merit the epithet "tragic": "The madness & cancer are nothing / the suffering is not vicarious.

Irons does not require vicarious living.

He did not need vicarious terrors.

Ballou introduced a Unitarian conception of God and reinterpreted the atonement: the death of Jesus was not a vicarious atonement for the sins of mankind but rather a demonstration of God's infinite and unchangeable love for his children.

"Music journalism at its highest level," he writes in "Jazz and Its Discontents," a collection of his published and unpublished essays, "is a valid literary genre, not a vicarious alternative to mastering an instrument".

"But the difference is that in real life it's happening to you and when you're in a relationship you feel real pleasure, and it's not this vicarious thing like it is with The Sims".

The aspiration, though, is not a vicarious one for the downstairs crew to rise up and overtake positions of the people they serve, but is instead our own rather unpatriotic desire, as common modern Americans, to live like the titled aristocrats we can never be.

Electric or acoustic, raw or synthetic, in idioms that may be slightly familiar or intriguingly alien, the music offers not just vicarious travel, but also renewed reasons to appreciate all the ways humans have devised to communicate, with and without words.

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I'm not having a vicarious 50s thrill or trying to come off like Manhattan Transfer.