vicariousness ,

There are various examples whereby the social phenomenon of vicariousness may be observed.

And "Maus," he said, expresses that vicariousness better than any other form could.

I can see being Greene, but spending two decades reconstructing his life seems like the very definition of literary vicariousness.

Does the step-up of vicariousness contribute to emotional maturity?

What distinguishes them is their sense of vicariousness."

Vicariousness refers to qualities or scenarios wherein one's experiences occur through another person.

The city's hustle and bustle, its architectural elements and vicariousness are also focused in his art works.

Perhaps it is only another aspect of the spirit of altruism, a sort of backhanded vicariousness.

Yes, there was genuine sympathy for Rushdie, but beneath that sympathy was an odd vicariousness.

But the later development of the Malraux myth makes it clear that D'Annunzio was in fact the near-perfect emblem for his vicariousness and ambition.

"It was interesting, I found, to play a vicariousness in the relationship with Raleigh, rather than simply making it, here comes Clive Owen, isn't he handsome?

This gives "Faberge in America" a touch of the fantasy-fandom vicariousness more common to auction house displays of, say, the Duchess of Windsor's jewels.

New technologies such as CGI and 3D have changed the way we watch movies and we are less dependent on empathy and more dependent on the upfront thrill of vicariousness.

She might well be capable of attacking someone who threatened Lesley-Jane or the girl's career, which she lived with such fierce vicariousness, but there was no sign that Michael Banks did represent any such threat.

The vicariousness of the nineteenth century poet in bewailing the hurts of his brethren is likely to have provoked a smile in us, as in the mourners of Adonais, at recognizing one Who in another's fate now wept his own.

Hollywood, Barber writes, "inculcates secularism, passivity, consumerism, vicariousness, impulse buying and an accelerated pace of life, not as a result of its overt themes and explicit story lines but by virtue of what Hollywood is and how its products are consumed."

Our lives are characterized by a sophomoric vicariousness: we behave as though our children's triumphs and disappointments were our own and, facilitated by an increasingly euphemistic attitude toward extinction (now coyly referred to as "passing"), as if our deaths belonged to someone else entirely.