Sentences with phrase «providing vicarious thrills»

By providing vicarious thrills, they can help generate natural lubrication, too.

The naughtiness that's supposed to be providing us vicarious thrills is at odds with the preachy, moralistic narration from Fonda's character.

Adapted from the Zoë Heller novel, it reminds of screenwriter Patrick Marber's Closer and how Mike Nichols's film adaptation similarly suffered from a gradual slackening of shock with the realization that its umbrella of misanthropy doesn't cast a dark shadow on all of us so much as it provides a vicarious thrill, like watching a cockfight, say, or a mantis eating its mate: though foul, its pungency is isolatable.

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The film is fuelled by the vicarious thrill provided by a lot of money, romantic imprisonment, a nice wardrobe, pulling one over on an arrogant jerk, and having a chance at winning back the starlet.

Set to the viciously mechanical soundtrack of a roaring engine, Lelouch's notorious 1976 short film instills its images with a steady kinetic energy and provides — along with questions of «realism» and ethics in art — a substantially vicarious thrill.