Sentence examples for vicarious excitement from inspiring English sources
It's like watching NASCAR: the vicarious excitement we feel watching great feats, but also the shameful frisson that excites us when disaster strikes the horrible human desire to see the other shoe drop.
Of his long-contemplated assault on the Twin Towers he says: 'It may have been illegal, but it wasn't wicked or mean.' He regards himself as an honourable prankster and adventurer, a confederate of Robin Hood, Raffles and Batman, living out his dreams and providing vicarious excitement for the rest of us.
Why? Junk Dilemmas No 73: If thers oan thin moar depressin than reidin aboot junkies shootin up, rippin oan another off an pishin and shittin is knowin losers laike tha radge Guy Ritchie will be tossin thessen off into their Armani fuckin suits wiv the vicarious excitement an glama.
Well, no, perhaps we should not have a full hour of vicarious concert excitement, but the contrast between the film strip and the embarrassed group which played in the studio was striking.
In any case, excitement, vicarious and otherwise, would be provided by the cyclist flyovers converging on their own elevated mini roundabout.
The roads, meanwhile, provide a constant vicarious source of excitement and danger – particularly at a roundabout, where those racing in have priority over those trying to get around.
You respond to his works not with an absorption in their quality but with a vicarious share in his brainstorming excitement while making them.
Staged with minimal light in a garretlike space, "Relocated" was a vaporous account of an unspecified crime that made you feel that queasy cocktail of excitement, fear and vicarious guilt that comes from reading lurid tabloid accounts of murders.
Here MIA's music found its perfect context: the bright, flashy excitement of a movie that offers a vicarious thrill-ride through a harder, real-er world than its western audience are ever likely to experience first-hand, complete with a feel-good, million-to-one happy ending where the hero beats the system and takes the money.
