Monday-morning quarterbacking, e.g.

Usage examples of hindsight.

There was a peach camisole that, in hindsight, should have been ironed on a lower setting.

Also, like any journeyer, I had to see all lands and the contents of them, not from the hindsight vantage of some twenty-five years later, but in the order in which I came upon them in my travels.

In hindsight, it did seem to him, that Tomas did resemble Tikal somewhat more than he did.

Now, as an adult, she could see with hindsight that they must have discussed what she was trying to do because they had remained steadfast, so immovable, so united in their calm determination to ensure that while she knew she was secure in their love, their marriage was irretrievably over.

The miracle of this uncomplicated monody with its minimal chordal accompaniment is not diminished by our hindsight knowledge that it had been there waiting, throughout recorded history, yet unnoticed by the bearded creaking practitioners of the complex.

Having a force of nature working against you-in this case the lethal sunspot interference in the transporter beam-was infinitely worse than twenty-twenty hindsight.

Only with hindsight is it easy to assume that because the superpowers did not go over the edge it was foreordained by deterrence that they should not.

In hindsight, leapfrogging may have been nothing but another of those intellectual fads whose time has gone before it ever came.

The only way to hold an honest election is to have an agreed-on procedure in advance and follow preelection rules, whether or not one side later objects, and even if hindsight can invent a better system.

Only with hindsight is it easy to assume that because the superpowers did not go over the edge it was foreordained by deterrence that they should not.

An entire generation of analysts would examine every tiny facet of the Battle of Adler, apportioning blame and assigning guilt with twenty-twenty hindsight and the fine ruthlessness of people who'd never been there, and that was just as immaterial right now as what Yeargin had been thinking.

Regarded with the objectivity of hindsight, the illusion appears arational, almost literally fantastic: it would be like being able both to lie and to trust other people at the same time.

Hogg read, at random: The miracle of this uncomplicated monody with its minimal chordal accompaniment is not diminished by our hindsight knowledge that it had been there waiting, throughout recorded history, yet unnoticed by the bearded creaking practitioners of the complex.

But, no: for all her self-doubts and newly acquired hindsight, she had to admit that at the time she left Tau Ceti, the job with Descartes seemed the best possible path for her to take.

With hindsight I can see that here too was betrayal, delicately implied by the teacher's elegant clothing and manner, his amused sympathy: the way he thrust a cheap ball-point pen toward sweaty, doomed Dave Brick.