I felt instant guilt, of course, and wanted to be retrospectively more attentive.
There have even been petitions for those convicted under anti-witchcraft legislation to be retrospectively pardoned.
It is unknown whether any of these calls could be retrospectively associated with the Paris attacks.
Mrs Beckett said in those circumstances "it should surely be beyond question that members should not be retrospectively rebuked".
Mr. Obama's speech might be, retrospectively, the first speech of the general election, and one of the last to superdelegates.
Ed Sheeran might be an unlikely protege of the UK urban music scene, but that doesn't mean his robust credentials in this realm should be retrospectively scrubbed away.
It would be an obvious stance were it not contradicted by insistence from within Ibrox that the club should not be retrospectively punished if found guilty of illegally registering players during use of the now infamous employee benefit trust scheme.
But while the blockbusting Avatar remains the commercial flagship for early 21st-century 3D, my money is on Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011, Entertainment, U) being the movie which will be retrospectively regarded as the recent wave's most honourable outing.
While working out on a treadmill, the actor wonders if she will be retrospectively thinned down by Star Wars' makers if her character Leia Organa should die and return as a "Force ghost".
Fina revealed the world records set by swimmers wearing the new suits were unlikely to be retrospectively erased, but conceded that a caveat may be added to the times.
He's been good for his country and everything, but Klose is just not magical enough, and Ronaldo should be retrospectively credited with a couple of goals to sort out this statistical anomaly.
