When Buffy finds Joyce after suffering an aneurysm, the episode follows the smaller moments in the aftermath – Anya's inability to understand human grieving, Xander's pointless quest for magical revenge, and Willow's anxiety over what to wear.
Our interest in the immediate aftermath of trauma is to understand preventative (rather than just curative) measures to the development of PTSD flashbacks.
In the war and its aftermath, Houda says, "you can begin to understand France today".
That they couldn't lay a string-backed glove on Van de Velde hardly needs stating, but it is a mark of Jean's immense stature that he was able to understand in the immediate aftermath of those extraordinary moments what the Lexus-driving bores of Muirfield never will.
In the aftermath of the election, progressives are trying to understand the implications of Trump's support from white, working class voters for our strategy.
You cannot begin to understand modern geopolitics without first understanding its intricacies and its aftermath.
The aftermath of "Earl" 's popularity isn't hard to understand — think of a bunch of lemmings, suddenly realizing that the form they abandoned can make money after all, trying to climb back up the cliff.
To understand the long, tortuous, and fascinating aftermath of the Galileo affair see Finocchiaro 2005, and for John Paul II's attempt see George Coyne's article in McMullin 2005.
But one had to look at Ukraine to understand the sheer tedium and exhaustion of dealing with the aftermath of a meltdown.
Many seemed stunningly naïve and insular, unable to understand why Egypt's Christian minority is nervous in the aftermath of attacks on churches.
In the aftermath of war, and even while war is ongoing, people have a right to understand the threat, and to know how to reduce the risk of mines and unexploded ordnance.
