Interceptors faulty, on reflection

Usage examples of in retrospect.

It was upon him before he reacted to hide the extra arm, but he could appreciate in retrospect that even without it, he wasn't looking much like anyone's idea of a safe hitchhiker.

When now in retrospect the thoughtful observer surveys the intellectual history of this time, when one reads its surviving fragments of literature, its scraps of political oratory, the few small voices that chance has selected out of a thousand million utterances to speak to later days, the most striking thing of all this web of wisdom and error is surely that hallucination of security.

I said as I rushed past the waitress and out the door (in retrospect, I admitted this wasn't wise.

What happened next seemed so natural that, in retrospect, it was frightening.

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the timeand which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

During the intervening ten years, I had a passion for the MacOS that seemed righteous and reasonable at the time but in retrospect strikes me as being exactly the same sort of goofy infatuation that my friend's dad had with his car.

I was growing drowsy: the woman with the bronze hair and the horrified face was fading in retrospect.

It was amazing how a lifetime of expecting at least semicivilized behavior out of one's superiors could prevent one from seeing something like this coming, he thought almost calmly, but in retrospect, it should have been manifest from the first.