The Zuckermanesque character of Philip Lewis Friedman is plucked from the deep retrospect of "The Ghost Writer" and placed in Perry's own youthful perspective, which, in turn, the fictionalized narrator sees from the retrospective point of view of a the far future.
Perhaps more problematic is Rubio's attempt to distance himself from the shutdown in retrospect: He now says, "I was never in favor of shutting down the government," a story that seems tailored to make him seem reasonable, which won't do at all.
When viewed from the vantage of retrospect, it becomes apparent that milestones in the progress of biomaterial science represent culminations of gradual shifts in theory and iterative experimentation.
The paper then builds on the key insights that could be drawn from the evolution in retrospect and attempts to highlight key historical challenges that the electricity sector has been constantly grappling with.
It's all part of the restructuring process that was begun decades earlier under IBM's first outside chief executive, Louis Gerstner, who came to the company from RJR Nabisco (in retrospect, maybe bringing in someone from RJR Nabisco to run IBM wasn't the best idea).
Laying around in the story, I left signs that it was something constructed in retrospect, from the perspective of our present.
It's still unclear what was going through Yanukovych's mind when he walked away from the deal, but in retrospect his decision was unsurprising.
This new FM-friendly approach was a surprise to those who had been following the Go-Betweens from the start, but in retrospect it was a natural progression for a band who always had a pop sensibility.
Long before the affair is actually consummated, he fantasises about the moment when it will all be over and he can enjoy it from the safe position of retrospect.
"I regret that my commitment to my work, to the charities, to whatever, allowed me to spend more time away from the children than, in retrospect, I would have wished.
But signing the letter was brave mostly because, by acknowledging the repressive nature of Vietnamese Communism, Stone risked making some of his own journalism from the war look, in retrospect, less than astute.
