Sentence examples for vicarious glory from inspiring English sources
The English may love a loser, but they also love vicarious glory.
(Jeannette Catsoulis) 'The Bling Ring' (R, 1 30) Sofia Coppola turns her cool, rigorous, quietly empathetic attention on a gang of mostly privileged Southern California teenagers who break into the houses of celebrities to snatch up swag and catch a few moments of vicarious glory.
(Rapold) 'The Bling Ring' (R, 1 30) Sofia Coppola turns her cool, rigorous, quietly empathetic attention on a gang of mostly privileged Southern California teenagers who break into the houses of celebrities to snatch up swag and catch a few moments of vicarious glory.
O. Scott) 'The Bling Ring' (R, 1 30) Sofia Coppola turns her cool, rigorous, quietly empathetic attention on a gang of mostly privileged Southern California teenagers who break into the houses of celebrities to snatch up swag and catch a few moments of vicarious glory.
Based in Queensland's biggest city, playing out of its biggest ground, and backed by a coterie of deep-pocketed business people content to bask in vicarious glory, the Broncos had it all, including a team so stacked with talent its publicly dry-witted but privately paternal coach, Wayne Bennett, could afford to let Wally Lewis go to the Gold Coast.
Then the girl's mother, apparently determined to get her moment of vicarious glory, hoisted her older daughter onstage even though that daughter was protesting insistently.
Or maybe they just are the vicarious armchair glory hunters I always took them for.
Fire and water were important aspects of court spectacles because the displays "inspired by means of fire, sudden noise, smoke and general magnificence the sentiments thought fitting for the subject to entertain of his sovereign: awe fear and a vicarious sense of glory in his might.
Like a pint-size "Hoop Dreams," "Racing Dreams" is the unusual sports movie that is more interested in the lives of children on the verge of adolescence than in giving viewers the cheap thrill of vicarious competition and heaping glory on the winners.
