vicarious satisfaction

The process of Michael's finding his feet provides deep vicarious satisfaction.

The sound of tinkling glass as it smashed in the darkness gave him a certain vicarious satisfaction.

For the host: rejuvenation of intelligence, vicarious satisfaction.

Maybe Norton could not grant himself a lifetime of romance, but he could do it for this other man and feel a vicarious satisfaction.

He doesn't want vicarious satisfaction.

The psychiatrist says the throat-slashing gestures in pro football may be a positive force, offering vicarious satisfaction to fans and sublimating the players' desire to really hurt someone.

He remembered the two women who had talked in the bus seat behind him and he wondered momentarily what vicarious satisfaction the Pretentionist living back in Pepys' time might get out of it.

Young men and women risked their lives fervently for the glory of Gordelpus and their own salvation, while their seniors took vicarious satisfaction in this endless festival of youthful prowess.

They may be relieved that the victim of a normal and generally-present danger is someone else, they may take vicarious satisfaction in the bullying, or they may worry that they risk becoming the next victim through intervention.