Sample Sentences for
retrospective
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    Her speech was filled with retrospective reflections on the company’s early struggles.
    retrospective = looking back on the past
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    We watched a spaghetti-western retrospective there last month.  (source)
    retrospective = look back (at a body of work)
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    She'd seen a retrospective of his work and decided he was hugely overrated.  (source)
    retrospective = an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
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    An oldies station was doing what they kept calling a Major Monkees Retrospective.  (source)
    Retrospective = a look back on the band's work
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    It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.  (source)
    retrospectively = when looking back
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    On this late night, not only was my radio working but the station was also hosting a retrospective on the music of Sly and the Family Stone.  (source)
    retrospective = selection that looked back
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    Retrospectively, he was rather green in the Commissioner's lifetime, and some ways, for his years, unformed.  (source)
    Retrospectively = in looking back
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    I saw in a store once some German posters for retrospective festivals of her work.  (source)
    retrospective = an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
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    Nor did he sigh retrospectively, when he viewed the equally pleasant, but not wholly satisfying vista of the past decade.†  (source)
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    It left one a trifle uneasy, and retrospective ....  (source)
    retrospective = focused on the past
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    But when I look back, retrospectively as it were—you know what I mean?†  (source)
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    You see, we both either get out of here alive, or we disappear, our mortal remains consigned to a Chinese fire, no past, no present — certainly no retrospective regarding our sub-zero contributions to society ...  (source)
    retrospective = looking back
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    Never had he supposed it to have been so recent an affair, hidden from his eyes that had been too innocent to discern it, not in a past which he had never known, but in evenings which he so well remembered, which he had lived through with Odette, of which he had supposed himself to have such an intimate, such an exhaustive knowledge, and which now assumed, retrospectively, an aspect of cunning and deceit and cruelty.†  (source)
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