It doesn't make the watching of them any more satisfying or substantial to watch, but it certainly renders their dullness more interesting to consider afterward.
Work on semiconducting materials was basic research before the invention of the transistor, but it might be considered "applied" afterward (Brooks, 1979).
And their subject matter is Proustian or Jamesian as well -- Marías is interested not so much in the violent death or the adulterous love affair itself as in how we think and feel about such events when we contemplate them beforehand or consider them afterward.
Afterward, Johnson considered his place in history.
Shortly afterward, she considered another co-op duplex, this one in her old Yorkville neighborhood, also for $1.2 million.
Afterward, Mr. Harris considered replacing him, but in the end, he said, he decided that "Alphy is still with us in these performances".
Elizabeth Endicott asked herself on that day in September, 1911, which ever afterward she considered to be either the worst or the best day of her life.
Ratliff became the starter midway through his freshman season, but afterward he considered leaving college to build log cabins with his uncle.
Shortly afterward, executives considered alerting the sales force not to promote the bone filler for unapproved uses, but they decided not to do so, prosecutors charged.
Although Corrigan made no statement in court and declined to comment afterward, he considered slots immoral, a defense lawyer said.
