The same vicariousness occurs when perception is attributed to one sense while it properly belongs to another. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
First of all there is that so-called vicariousness of the senses which substitutes one sense for another, in representation. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
There's a ton of'em out there, "he encouragingly settled, knowing that Bradley was caught up in a kind of vicariousness of the moment, so knew also that to appease him could do no harm. From Wordnik.com. [Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 3] Reference
I think there's a vicariousness thing going on here. From Wordnik.com. [Born to Be Wild: A Tale of Two Road Trips] Reference
The vicariousness of the sacrifice is implied in the word "for". From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
This is the vicariousness that all Americans have become attuned to through TV and the movies. From Wordnik.com. [Decoding 2010 Political Attack Buzzwords] Reference
Not enough horror films exploit the intense vicariousness of a fingernail falling off and then being shoved back under the skin. From Wordnik.com. [Ti West Updates on The Innkeepers, His Follow-Up to The House of the Devil; Starts Filming in April | /Film] Reference
But on top of all of that, a selfishness and a vicariousness that i sensed in this letter that most likely said much of what i had felt all those years. From Wordnik.com. [i-claudius Diary Entry] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
No explanation, however, can be considered satisfactory which does not safeguard two ideas of a deeply ethical nature -- the voluntariness and the vicariousness of Christ's sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
Pro does not denote futurity of time, but vicariousness of office. From Wordnik.com. [Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews."] Reference
What a profound reality, and depth, and rationality, is there in such a vicariousness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.] Reference
But vicariousness was largely wanting as an element in, and as a cause of, their sacrifices. From Wordnik.com. [India's Problem, Krishna or Christ] Reference
It is an image of horrible vicariousness; we look, too, finding ourselves in this vile company. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Perhaps it is only another aspect of the spirit of altruism, a sort of backhanded vicariousness. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Essays] Reference
The vicariousness of love, the identification of the sufferer with the sinner, in the sense that the. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant] Reference
This, and not any thing different, is the coarsely conceived, legally quantitative vicariousness ascribed to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.] Reference
Yet there is no pretence that he used vicariousness or satisfaction in the same sense in which his adversaries did. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant] Reference
Consumerism tends to encourage us to think of "doing things" as work and touts vicariousness as superior to actual participation. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
And so this also begins to explain the vicariousness of it - how an innocent person suffering for the guilty could conceivably be just. From Wordnik.com. [The bob.blog feed!] Reference
Christians of the West, in the present day, whereby the element of vicariousness, or its God-ward efficiency, has been considerably eliminated. From Wordnik.com. [India, Its Life and Thought] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
We, on the other hand, regard the vicariousness in which he comes, only as the mode, or instinct of his love, when doing a work in the recovery and reconciliation of men. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
"Commodity, consumption and celebrity worship" as well as "velocity, vicariousness, instant obsolescence, the erasure of historical memory, and the three-second attention span induced by the mass media". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The fact is that the evangelist translates the prophet well, and the English version translates the evangelist well, and the vicariousness resulting is a grand, living idea, such as meets the highest intelligence, and yields an impression that accords with the best revelations of consciousness, in the state of love. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.] Reference
Consumer-goods manufacturers obviously have a vested interest in promoting vicariousness: If we find little meaning in our work and prefer consumption to concentration and collecting things to hobbies, they obviously benefit to a far greater degree than they do if they are merely outfitting us for activities other than shopping. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
The problem of vicariousness and authenticity has troubled philosophers for centuries: part of being an authentic individual seems to require that one examine his / her own life, thoughts, opinions and beliefs, whatever the rest of society may endorse, and choose to embody only those beliefs, morals, traits, opinions, attitudes and dispositions that are consistent with one's examined and rationally chosen set of virtues. From Wordnik.com. [Berto: Philosophy Monkey] Reference
"The eternal necessity of suffering and its eternal vicariousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
I think the point is vicariousness. From Wordnik.com. [Against Sports Fans | clusterflock] Reference
. vicariousness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
There would be something about my writing that seems good or bad, happy or sad, great, cool, angst-ridden, philosophical, successful, vibrant, humorous, hackneyed, intellectual, technological, poetic, mystic, down-to-earth, real, funny, or whatever; which makes them read my blog, and so I've a bond with all those visitors, who may or may not be living their life the way I do, who may or may not at some point of time in their life have gone through the successes and failures that I've been through, but they are an indirect part of it, either through knowledge sharing, friendship, or plain vicariousness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference
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