Sentence examples for retrospective wisdom from inspiring English sources
In fact, Coe cheats with retrospective wisdom.
That's a retrospective wisdom of mine, looking backwards.
"Retrospective wisdom and no small amount of sanctimony" have been deployed by those criticising MPs in the press.
"Jealousy" is a work of rueful, retrospective wisdom, but its rough-edged beauty is very much of the moment there, Garrel seizes the day.
"Jealousy" is a work of rueful, retrospective wisdom, but its rough-edged beauty is very much of the moment — there, Garrel seizes the day.
Her meditative account, set down toward the end of her life, cuts back and forth in time to give the reader both a child's perspective on the awful events in the Sierras and an adult's retrospective wisdom.
"Julia Child's Kitchen Wisdom," a two-hour retrospective, is scheduled to be broadcast on public television in December, and a book of the same name came out this fall.
A master of the rhapsodic closeup as well, applying the same complex discernment to his characters as to the labyrinthine worlds in which they scurry blindly forward and get caught in the eternal law of unintended consequences, he sees the sole strain of wisdom, bitter wisdom, and bitter surprise at the workings of the unforeseeable, in the retrospective view, in memory.
The valuable curatorial wisdom here is that artists often look better — sharper, fuller — in the company of their peers than in the regal isolation of museum retrospectives.
Wisdom means practical wisdom, not scientific understanding.
