It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself. [. . . ] It had been only through books - at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions - that I had managed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books; consequently, my belief in books had risen more out of a sense of desperation than from any abiding conviction of their ultimate value.
Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.
No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
History at its best is vicarious experience.
You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.
I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems. . . It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
There is no such thing as vicarious experience.
My suspicion is that his hard-core supporters, you know, when I interviewed some of them, they almost take kind of vicarious pride in Donald Trump`s ability to maneuver.
It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.
The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.
In photography, the issue of the integration of form and content is exceptionally difficult because of the widely held belief that photographs must be a kind of vicarious experience of the subject itself.
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.
In detective stories. . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but. . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.
All action is vicarious faith.
