Contemplation of the past

Usage examples of retrospect.

Reschke parks the car and the two of them discuss the reversibility of historical facts, I have to survey in retrospect the United Cemeteries, leveled by government decree, giving their acreage: An area circumscribed on the one hand by the Polyclinic and the Engineering School and on the other by St.

In retrospect, the sterilization program served as an early paradigm for techniques of annihilation and the public policy of sanitizing the culture against biological and genetic threat.

Grimsley thought that the unanticipated battle they had just fought against a mix of Iraqi soldiers and Fedayeen might, in retrospect, turn out to be one of the major battles of the war.

The darkness and silence left over it by his unrepented offence, gave it, in his retrospect, a threatening aspect--out of which at any moment might burst the hidden enemy, the thing that might be known, and must not be known!

The kink is one of those anomalies that reinforces a theory because, in retrospect, it should have been predictable.

Cases that, in retrospect, may seem aberrant or even ludicrous censorial excesses sometimes became guideposts by which the censored party decided what the victors construed to be within the boundaries of acceptable expression.

The sleepy old ranch cosily nestled among the encinal oaks revived a hundred memories, some sad, some happy, many of which have returned in retrospect during lonely hours since.

She spent her high school years and the first three semesters at Kingwood Community College in a series of foster homes where she was cared for adequately enough but never felt comfortable and certainly not loved, though she supposed, in retrospect, that it was more her fault than that of her wards.

Seen in retrospect, her evening with Gordon Longford appeared neither so glamorous in the early hours, nor so melodramatic in the latter part as it had seemed to her on her return home.

What happened then was in retrospect sufliaently impressive to onhreight any suspicion of obfuscatory technique.

No doubt there ofttimes is much reason for shame and pain in our retrospects.

We have managed to deepen our understanding by breaking free of certain conclusions that, in retrospect, were a consequence of perturbative approximate analyses rather than true string physics.

RETROSPECT Round white clouds roll slowly above the housetops, Over the clear red roofs they flow and pass.

It is only in retrospect that it seems we overreacted to the fact that the hospital held enemy sick and wounded.

In retrospect, that flurry might be interpreted as being only marginally premature, anticipating by less than a decade the reawakening that would bring the ancient cults to the fore.