Crossword clues for hindsight
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hindsight \hindsight\ n. understanding the nature of an event after it has happened; as, hindsight is always clearer than foresight.
20-20 hindsight, twenty-twenty hindsight Perfect understanding of an event after it has happened; -- a term usually used with sarcasm in response to criticism of one's decision, implying that the critic is unfairly judging the wisdom of the decision in light of information that was not available when the decision was made.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 realisation or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred 2 The rear sight of a firearm
WordNet
n. understanding the nature of an event after it has happened; "hindsight is always better than foresight"
Wikipedia
Hindsight (Carlton LaFroyge), formerly Hindsight Lad, is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has appeared primarily in the New Warriors series. Created by Fabian Nicieza and Darick Robertson, he first appeared in New Warriors Annual #3.
Hindsight bias is the inclination to see past events as being predictable and reasonable.
Hindsight may also refer to:
Hindsight (also known as Sees Everything In Hindsight) is the second album by rapper John Reuben, released on May 21, 2002.
Hindsight is a 2008 American thriller film produced by Ambush Entertainment. It stars Leonor Varela, Jeffrey Donovan, Waylon Payne, Miranda Bailey, Richard Riehle, Deborah Offner and Arnell Powell and is directed by Paul Holahan.
Hindsight (, lit. Blue Salt) is a 2011 South Korean film by Lee Hyun-seung, his first after a ten-year hiatus. The film is about a hitwoman who struggles with her feelings for the underworld boss who is her target. The film deals with issues of age difference, and the Korean underworld. It stars Song Kang-ho and Shin Se-kyung, and premiered at the 16th Busan International Film Festival. The film received a total of 763,776 admissions nationwide.
Hindsight is an album recorded by American saxophonist Ken McIntyre in 1974 for the SteepleChase label.
Hindsight is an acoustically oriented studio compilation album by British progressive rock band Anathema consisting of re-recorded versions of some of the band's classic songs with the addition of one new song; "Unchained (Tales Of The Unexpected)". The title for the album was originally intended to be Temporary Peace. This album also features cello playing of Dave Wesling from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. A close friend of the band, Dave previously toured with the band in 2004 and is featured on the DVD A Moment in Time. The record was arranged, recorded, performed and produced solely by the band. Kscope label launched a Hindsight mini-site, available in three languages: English, Italian and French, from where the song "Fragile Dreams" can be downloaded for free in MP3 format if signing to a mailing list. The mini-site also contains streaming previews of "Inner Silence", "Are You There?" and "Angelica".
Hindsight is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on VH1 on January 7, 2015. The series was created by Emily Fox and stars Laura Ramsey in the lead role of Becca Brady, who, while wrestling with doubts on the eve of her second wedding, finds herself sent back to 1995. Specifically, Becca finds that she has time traveled to the day of her first wedding, a marriage that ultimately ended in divorce. Upon her arrival in 1995, Becca reunites with her best friend Lolly (from whom she has become estranged in present day), breaks off her engagement to her first husband, and resolves to use her trip back in time to correct what she sees as personal and professional mistakes.
The show also has a companion/spin-off web series called Planet Sebastian. The companion series plays as a public access style talk show hosted by Sebastian Wexler, a character who runs a video store featured on "Hindsight." Episodes of "Planet Sebastian" stream on the VH1 website.
On March 16, 2015, VH1 announced that the show has been renewed for a second season, but after a change in leadership at VH1 Hindsight was ultimately cancelled in August 2015.
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.