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Perhaps, too, it is time for us to all be honest with ourselves – we enjoy living vicariously through these thrill seekers.
But that was because I felt I was vicariously witnessing not one of those rare moments when the British achieve a sense of national identity but the well-staged funeral of a combative ideologue.
However, thanks to Facebook's workplace culture of compulsive sharing, we can now live the Bay Area dream vicariously through its employees' feeds on Instagram (which, coincidentally, Facebook acquired for $1bn in 2012).
And, having "lived" through that upheaval vicariously , we are likely to be more sympathetic to those who have actually experienced it.
Spurned then by the Israelis, his Palestinian Liberation Organisation in turn spurned the vague and insubstantial self-rule that Egypt's Anwar Sadat vicariously negotiated at Camp David on the Palestinian people's behalf.
In the old one, religion is "a public utility": there is one state-backed supplier, and most Christians follow their religion vicariously (in the sense that somebody else does your churchgoing for you).
How easy it is to expiate that guilt vicariously , by demonising Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians rather than to make amends to the victims of its own racism and xenophobia.Stuart KaufmanSan FranciscoSicilian defenceSIR – There are problems in Sicily that slow down its economy's recovery, but your article does not truly reflect the situation ("The EU's third-world island", May 4th).
He might have been a good corporate citizen, but he was still a bandit and less of one, arguably, than the vicariously charitable CEO, who is spending money taken not from strangers, but from people who have placed him in a position of trust to safeguard their property.
By the time the 16th World Cup ends in the futuristic stadium of Saint-Denis on the outskirts of Paris, the cumulative television audience will probably have reached a total of 37 billion, including 1.7 billion (more than a quarter of the world's population) for the final match itself.Two years later similar numbers will vicariously attend the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
One was that haute couture, hitherto available only to the very rich or vicariously through magazines and newspapers, should be sold worldwide in ready-to-wear shops at a fraction of the posh price.
The lesser performers might be free-riding; but they might be well-intentioned and vicariously satisfied by the high achiever's progress.
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The adverb "vicariously " modifies verbs, adverbs, or adjectives to describe how an action or feeling is experienced. It indicates that the experience is not direct but is instead gained through another person or source. Ludwig confirms its correct usage in numerous contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
