vicarious

How To Use vicarious In A Sentence

• The reader of adventure stories wants romance and vicarious excitement.
• I could see them together and, in that act of seeing, experienced vicarious comfort. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
• What makes the Jack Flash sequences arguably escapist is not just their gaucheness but the vicarious thrill of his anti-establishment rebellion. Essay Rant Thingy
• They get a vicarious thrill from watching motor racing.
• Next in potency are what Bandura calls vicarious experiences, in which the individual sees others coping successfully with similar problems. Planned Short-Term Treatment
• The employers were not vicariously liable for his negligence.
• If the hirer were to give a specific order he would be responsible for harm resulting from negligent execution of the order, but he would be liable as a principal, not vicariously.
• This quaint ceremonial, still annually observed in the secluded capital of Buddhism-the Rome of Asia-is interesting because it exhibits, in a clearly marked religious stratification, a series of divine redeemers themselves redeemed, of vicarious sacrifices vicariously atoned for, of gods undergoing a process of fossilisation, who, while they retain the privileges, have disburdened themselves of the pains and penalties of divinity. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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• No one could have been more sympathetic to the detail of the poor man's need, or more capable of vicarious imagination.