Sentence examples for vicarious fulfillment from inspiring English sources

The woman gives a man "vicarious fulfillment of his inability to express himself," he said.

For Nina, the impossible reflects the demands of her smothering mother, a failed dancer herself who seeks vicarious fulfillment through her daughter.

Between the recipes were photos of her solemn children, dressed in expensive velvet overalls, which I guiltily enjoyed; I even felt vicarious fulfillment at the images of outdoor dinners on her farm.

It's a perfectly futile fantasy, of course, but vicarious fulfillment is yours at the Westport Country Playhouse, where Noël Coward's 1925 "Hay Fever," a comedy of bad manners, as it has been famously called, has opened the summer season smashingly.

Mr. Fitzsimons called the phenomenon "vicarious goal fulfillment".

Yes, this children's show delivers vicarious wish fulfillment for adults.

Such poems offer the same kind of vicarious wish fulfillment that differently inclined readers might find in spy novels or gangster movies, with their parodies of unbound masculinity.

In "Why Healthy Eaters Fall for Fries" (news analysis, Sunday Review, June 30), it is suggested that people often choose the less healthy choice out of "vicarious goal fulfillment" or "hyperbolic discounting".

Her ever-tabloided relationship made her an object of vicarious wish fulfillment, jealousy and scorn.

Health Halo Effect -- if A = B and C = D, how might B = C? Welcome to the world of "vicarious goal fulfillment".

Directed by Ryan Murphy, who wrote the screenplay with Jennifer Salt, the film offers an easygoing and generous blend of wish fulfillment, vicarious luxury, wry humor and spiritual uplift, with a star, Julia Roberts, who elicits both envy and empathy.