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He compares this to the vicarious delight moviegoers during the Depression felt at seeing fictional movie characters leading glamorous lives.
I'm looking forward to following along with Not Coming's Truffaut extravaganza; many of the films in question (and many of the best) are unavailable here on DVD, so a good critical read may serve as a vicarious delight.
If there is something irresistibly touching in the sight of an attractive mother in love with her perfect child, vicarious delight gives way to exasperation and eventually to alarm as Emily home schools her son and possessively prevents him from making friends his own age.
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Vicarious pleasure?
She derived a vicarious pleasure from this.
Oh sure, it might gift you vicarious pleasure.
I am my own Dieu, I fashion my vanity, delighting in the vicarious transgression that has fashionable artists like those fools Cocteau and Picasso, who have never dared to have oral sex with a leprotic geriatric vagabond.
For all of this, the two poets kept up a close relationship of mutual care and affection, delighting in one another's vicarious company, over three decades of correspondence.
The implications are still clear enough to elicit cries of delight from an audience primed for vicarious bedroom thrills.
Vicarious shopping.
Happy vicarious motoring.
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