Example Sentences

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“I think vicariousness is more powerful than empathy, because ‘empathy’ implies ‘you’ being other than ‘them.’

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2024

But, for the most part, a sort of clammy vicariousness reigns.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2019

We have been putting ourselves forward, or have taught in mechanical rather than vital fashion, or have not undertaken betimes the labor of preparation, or have declined the trouble of vicariousness.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman

He must think and suffer for his companions; a suggestion of vicariousness lies therein, a hint of self-offering, which has not yet flowered but is certainly budding far back in old Hellas.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques

I. The vicariousness of the sacrifice is implied in the word “for”.

From Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Robertson, Frederick William