Significados de vicarious leisure em inglês

A day of vicarious leisure has in some communities been set apart as Labor Day.

Even the remoter, lay dependents should render a vicarious leisure to the extent of one day in seven.

The largest manifestation of vicarious leisure in modern life is made up of what are called domestic duties.

So, also, all knowledge which is useful as evidence of leisure, other than vicarious leisure, is scarcely feminine.

The need of vicarious leisure, or conspicuous consumption of service, is a dominant incentive to the keeping of servants.

It touches the ways as well as the means, and draws on vicarious leisure as well as on vicarious consumption.

This vicarious leisure class is distinguished from the leisure class proper by a characteristic feature of its habitual mode of life.

But the middle-class wife still carries on the business of vicarious leisure, for the good name of the household and its master.

The emphasis is thereby thrown oon austere and discomforting vicarious leisure, to the neglect of conspicuous consumption as a means of grace.

The good fame of these several orders of the supernatural hierarchy also commonly requires a certain tribute of vicarious consumption and vicarious leisure.

The like is of course true, and perhaps in a still higher degree, of the number of dependents who perform vicarious leisure for him.

Such a tithe of vicarious leisure is a perquisite of all members of the preternatural leisure class and is indispensable to their good fame.

But as we descend the social scale, the point is presently reached where the duties of vicarious leisure and consumption devolve upon the wife alone.