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Definition
to review with hindsight (with the understanding that comes after seeing how things turned out)- In retrospect, I wish we had done things differently.
retrospect = to review with hindsight
- In retrospect, I probably could not have picked a worse time.Stephen Chbosky -- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Again Judith groaned; this time no feeling of self, no retrospect of the past caused the pain.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
- We were adamantly self-reliant—maybe, in retrospect, to the point of being prideful.Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real
- In retrospect, it all seemed an elaborate act to usher the condemned onto their stage.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- It seemed even sadder, in retrospect, beside the bustle and prosperity of Atlanta.Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
- —It is, in fact, a most mortifying retrospect for me.Jane Austen -- Emma
- In the retrospect it is strange to remember how soon I fell in with these monsters' ways, and gained my confidence again.H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- "I was more frightened in retrospect," he said.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- In retrospect, it was in rather bad taste, but I didn't know what would befall him.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- The woman did not see well, or saw two things where one occurred, and her hand on the child's face seemed to work a marvel of retrospection.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- She seemed sympathetic but, come to think of it in retrospect, she and Jason may have been in on it together.Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
- The short dialogue with Priscilla in the garden had determined the current of retrospect in that frequent direction this particular Sunday afternoon.George Eliot -- Silas Marner
- Neither did I. Nothing could touch us, I see in retrospect, except the emotions of that moment.Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
- A period of introspection, a space of retrospection, then a mixture of both.Zora Neale Hurston -- Sweat
- 'Well, never mind,' he added hastily, as if ashamed in retrospect of his surprise attack.Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
- "A very serious error in judgment, don't you think, in retrospect?David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
- That was wrong, in retrospect, as their interests proved to be in conflict.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- "In retrospect," he said, "perhaps the raid on the Dumort was not as well-planned as it might have been.Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
- I assigned it to the Trench Rats solely because of you, but in retrospect that might have been a mistake.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
retrospect = to review with hindsight