Phrases with «vicarious thrill»

A vicarious thrill means experiencing excitement or enjoyment through someone else's experiences or actions instead of doing it yourself. Full definition

Sentences with «vicarious thrill»

  • Maybe it was just the pure vicarious thrill of «discovering the hard facts of the writer's trade,» reading of the glances of «cold disdain» thrown down upon Lucien as he walks in his cheap frock coat and out - of - fashion «Nankeen trousers» amidst the beau monde; or Lucien greeting the sobering facts of the mercantile chicanery of publishers, for whom «books were like cotton bonnets to haberdashers, a commodity to be bought cheap and sold dear.» (bookpage.com)
  • By providing vicarious thrills, they can help generate natural lubrication, too. (prevention.com)
  • For the record, I agree that it's more interesting to not make David a Peter Parker do - gooder, but because they cast such an irredeemably smug, snot - nosed punk in the role, David is no kind of vessel for vicarious thrills. (filmfreakcentral.net)
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