Sentence examples for retrospect from from inspiring English sources

We learn about the tragedy in retrospect, from characters who heard about it second hand.

Laying around in the story, I left signs that it was something constructed in retrospect, from the perspective of our present.

Actually, that's just what he does, writing (apparently in retrospect from California) about three days in December 1949 when, having been chastised by his school "for not applying myself", he plays truant over a long and memorable weekend in Manhattan.

Mr. Delbanco provides a moving illustration of precisely how family ties are woven and how they change over time, only to grow strongest of all in retrospect, from a distance.

In retrospect, from the vantage point of late middle age — from the helpful heights and clear air that are part of aging's greatest consolations — I see that my life was in fact closely plotted and consequential, with the structural elaboration and subtle motifs of a Victorian novel, interwoven with grace notes, subplots, and coincidences that stretched credulity and yet were inevitable.

The "you" of the story, and its narrator, are revealed in the final sentence, a minor coup of storytelling that buoys the piece, transforming it in retrospect from a slightly pedestrian experiment in point of view to a touching portrait of grief.

The Chiriquí venture was, in retrospect, doomed from the start.

Nothing much about the Championship Series with the Los Angeles Angels feels like fun in retrospect, even from this distance.

The accidental innovator ReprintsHis next idea, he now realises, was flawed by being obvious not in retrospect, but from the start itself an important lesson.

In retrospect, economists from Alan Greenspan on down agree that the run-up in stock prices in the late 1990's was unsustainable.

(b) Cranial CT scan demonstrates a subdural hematoma (SDH), and (c) when viewed in retrospect, TCCS from the right side reveals the SDH in the contralateral hemisphere in B-mode (arrow).