Crossword clues for retrospectively
retrospectively
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retrospectively \Re`tro*spec"tive*ly\, adv. By way of retrospect.
Wiktionary
adv. In a retrospective manner.
WordNet
adv. in a manner contemplative of past events; "retrospectively, he seems like a great artist"
Usage examples of "retrospectively".
Lovers in like manner live on their capital from failure of income: they, too, for the sake of stifling apprehension and piping to the present hour, are lavish of their stock, so as rapidly to attenuate it: they have their fits of intoxication in view of coming famine: they force memory into play, love retrospectively, enter the old house of the past and ravage the larder, and would gladly, even resolutely, continue in illusion if it were possible for the broadest honey-store of reminiscences to hold out for a length of time against a mortal appetite: which in good sooth stands on the alternative of a consumption of the hive or of the creature it is for nourishing.
Everything is stored, so that retrospectively it is possible to go back to the magnetic tapes and to trace the first appearance of a codeword, say, or command responsibility in a crisis.
Now she had internalised her visual sense of argument there was no way to express her present state retrospectively.
Thus, we are only retrospectively aware of intentional states of consciousness, but we are immediately aware of nonintentional mental phenomena.
Lovers in like manner live on their capital from failure of income: they, too, for the sake of stifling apprehension and piping to the present hour, are lavish of their stock, so as rapidly to attenuate it: they have their fits of intoxication in view of coming famine: they force memory into play, love retrospectively, enter the old house of the past and ravage the larder, and would gladly, even resolutely, continue in illusion if it were possible for the broadest honey-store of reminiscences to hold out for a length of time against a mortal appetite: which in good sooth stands on the alternative of a consumption of the hive or of the creature it is for nourishing.
But if one achieves the impossible, the promises appear later retrospectively precisely where one had looked in vain for them before.
It was to him a gentle innocent time—a time which, though there may not be much in it, seldom repeats itself in a man’s life, and has a peculiar dearness when glanced at retrospectively.