An exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work

Usage examples of retrospective.

Earlier in this chapter, I mentioned a large retrospective analysis by Charles Honorton and Diane Ferrari, of 309 precognition experiments carried out over the fifty years between 1935 and 1987.

To announce the fact, with a tabulation of his reasons, would be the historic, retrospective, undramatic way of dealing with the matter.

The conversation picked up, moved rapidly from matters of the last few days across a long and sombre political retrospective, and then into talk of the Unsettlement and the years that preceded it.

Title: Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective Author: Adlai E.

The younger here of our ethereal band And hierarchy of Intelligences, That this thwart Parliament whose moods we watch-- So insular, empiric, un-ideal-- May figure forth in sharp and salient lines To retrospective eyes of afterdays, And print its legend large on History.

Teenocracy, a campily compelling future history whose retrospective unlikelihood reveals just how wrong a linear sf projection can be.

There is a crucially retrospective cast to this kind of understanding, as if to say: you cannot know exposure until it has done its work, until it is too late.

I will not say that Juliet had not her respondent pangs of retrospective jealousy.

God forbid, that, in the meantime, the nature of his extraction should turn to his prejudice in a land of freedom like this, where individuals are every day ennobled in consequence of their own qualifications, without the least retrospective regard to the rank or merit of their ancestors.

He had no idle retrospective whim, Till she was his, her deeds concern’d not him: So far was well, - but Clelia thought not fit (In all the Griffin needed) to submit: Gaily to dress and in the bar preside, Soothed the poor spirit of degraded pride.

There was a big retrospective last year of the original Colorists — Cadell, Peploe, Hunter and Fergusson.

In particular, epidemiology, the science of drawing inferences about human diseases by comparing groups of people (often by retrospective historical studies), has for a long time successfully employed formalized procedures for dealing with problems similar to those facing historians of human societies.

There was a news clipping from _Paris Soir_, an unsigned review of a Man Ray retrospective exhibit in Paris, and Debierue's name was mentioned, together with the names of a dozen other artists, in a listing of Dadaists who had known Man Ray during the 1920s.

Lilya had seen a Museum of Modern Art Film Retrospective of Films of Depravity in 1966.

When Scotland Yard's John Grieve took me on one of several retrospective visits to what is left of the Ripper crime scenes, our meeting place was the Royal London Hospital, a grim Victorian brick building that doesn't seem to have been modernized much.