Sentence examples for vicarious in from inspiring English sources

10 "Such liability will not be derivative or vicarious in nature, nor will it be constructive rather than actual.

There is now, on every level, unprecedented access to the lives of others but there is also something vicarious in this access.

While the Masters in April heralds the flowering of another golf year, the United States Open lures Americans to the television for a midseason challenge more vicarious in character and charm.

Scorsese's cinema is an emotional and a virtual prosthetic — one that substitutes for unbearable human absences and one that allows for motion, albeit virtual and vicarious, in places one could never go.

Female viewers, especially, have been trained to expect certain payoffs from romantic comedies, vicarious in nature: the meet-cute, the soul mate, and, in nearly every case, a "Me, too!" identification.

I know of women who have really mooned, and for years, over some such glamorous shadow, and it is highly possible that my own immunity is due to my sensual satisfaction, even vicarious, in such things as potato chips and Beluga caviar.

For the poor people of Merthyr Tydfil, Johnny represents a vicarious once-in-a-lifetime chance to be noticed.

Such identification is expressed in vicarious feelings: in pride of one's country's merits and achievements, and in shame for its lapses or crimes (when these are acknowledged, rather than denied).

The stories of violence, oppression and human rights abuses told to children often result in vicarious traumatization, in which children feel as though the experience is happening to them.

Three lucky winners will go on to compete against other vicarious shredders in the U.S. finals in Los Angeles next month.

Anyone who goes to see Jan Jakub Kolski's film "Pornography" expecting a vicarious immersion in steaming flesh is in for a disappointment.