Sentence examples for vicarious sense from inspiring English sources

But ought that vicarious sense of shame really to be limited to other Chelsea fans – or even other football fans?

What we see is not so much human wickedness as human frailty, a certain self-justifying blindness that leaves the reader melancholy, sadly coping with a vicarious sense of waste.

What is most compelling is the vicarious sense of judgments made on the fly, according to the standard that shapes any art scene not distorted by marketing: the esteem of peers.

And his imposing color prints, most 40 by 50 inches, offer a vicarious sense of what he saw and felt: the monumental scale of the found art, the unexpected wonder of it all.

I had grown up among split-levels and "community pools"; from listening to Chouky talk about the people she'd known and the escapades they'd had, I derived a deep if vicarious sense of glamour, of importance.

Germans of my own generation -- and those slightly older than I am, who were alive in the war but too young to fight or know what was happening -- have been made to feel, and have felt, the vicarious sense of shame and impotence that is the subject of "The Reader," by Bernhard Schlink.

If a child's donation would save the life of a sibling with organ failure, the donor may gain in the psychosocial and vicarious senses described above in the discussion of the 'do no harm' rule.

"You get this vicarious feeling, a sense that 'this is my history,' " said Fredrica Wachsberger, a 66-year-old retired college art history professor from New York City who is the president of the Oysterponds Historical Society.

And the sense of vicarious thrills that Rose derives from her performing daughters is intensified in eerie ways.

But the vicarious thrills and the sense of mystery inspired by pampas grass and secret codes still obscure a far more mundane reality.

Even though we know it is a lot more complicated than that, we still take some sense of vicarious moral high ground from siding with the goodies.