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  • Thomas thought about what he'd heard, and in retrospect, it did seem like those two words had been in there somewhere.†   (source)
  • Now, in retrospect, I realize that there were signs pointing to troubled times ahead.†   (source)
  • And then our cautious lives had grown intolerable in retrospect, and every possibility of returning to them equally intolerable.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, I'm surprised that Chief Pike didn't search the interior of the pickup for that "instrument of death" he was always looking for.†   (source)
  • None of this was particularly an affliction; or rather, it appeared so only in retrospect, once a solution had been found.†   (source)
  • It's obvious now, in retrospect.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, it's probably best that it happened that way.†   (source)
  • In retrospect she saw that her sudden lack of inhibition had intoxicated her more than any of the men had.†   (source)
  • I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared with now, when I am so rich and so famous and so hated by the authorities in the Capitol.†   (source)
  • A mistake, in retrospect.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, it was in rather bad taste, but I didn't know what would befall him.†   (source)
  • She seemed sympathetic but, come to think of it in retrospect, she and Jason may have been in on it together.†   (source)
  • She was, in retrospect, quite brilliant when it came to manipulating us.†   (source)
  • Football history, like personal history, is cleaner and more orderly in retrospect than it is at the time.†   (source)
  • Other corporate failures occurred both in Europe and in the United States, but their true meaning remained for the moment unclear—in retrospect, a good thing.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, it shouldn't have been a surprise that Dr. Villalobos had become a viewers' favorite, too.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, its path of destruction appeared almost purposeful, as if the automaton had waded ashore, stomped Cabin Four, and headed back out to sea.†   (source)
  • "In retrospect," he said, "perhaps the raid on the Dumort was not as well-planned as it might have been.†   (source)
  • The conference of 1923 was the culmination of long planning on the part of Lord Darlington; indeed, in retrospect, one can see clearly how his lordship had been moving towards this point from some three years or so before.†   (source)
  • 'Well, never mind,' he added hastily, as if ashamed in retrospect of his surprise attack.†   (source)
  • Although in retrospect I suppose it could be considered at least partially prophetic.†   (source)
  • But all the high points, in retrospect, were a tease.†   (source)
  • We were adamantly self-reliant—maybe, in retrospect, to the point of being prideful.†   (source)
  • "A very serious error in judgment, don't you think, in retrospect?†   (source)
  • In retrospect, the years in Alabama were happy ones for Ginny.†   (source)
  • You would be kind to pardon me in retrospect.†   (source)
  • It was one of those brief moments that seem (fear could it really have been fear in momma's eyes) much longer in retrospect.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, this was probably a mistake.†   (source)
  • "Stupid names," I said in retrospect.†   (source)
  • Instead, he discovered himself recalling an incident of almost a year ago, a casual encounter in Valley View Cemetery, which, in retrospect, had somehow for him more or less ended the Clutter case.†   (source)
  • She had no photos of the two of them, no sweet notes-in retrospect, she realized how careful he'd been, how easily he could be erased from her life.†   (source)
  • There still existed some hostility toward amaMfengu, but in retrospect, I would attribute this more to jealousy than tribal animosity.†   (source)
  • I only know what I've been thinking, and even that's in retrospect--until I suddenly found myself here, now, I thought I was there.†   (source)
  • Instead I made a major'in retrospect, not the best' decision.†   (source)
  • "I was more frightened in retrospect," he said.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, it seems he might have been farsighted.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, the answer seems fairly straightforward.†   (source)
  • The 1960s and 1970s were, in retrospect, a great time to be a street criminal in most American cities.†   (source)
  • Neither did I. Nothing could touch us, I see in retrospect, except the emotions of that moment.†   (source)
  • In retrospect a EuroRail ticket or volunteering in Bangladesh ' would have been brilliant choices, but I stayed stuck in the Valley.†   (source)
  • He felt a sudden twinge in his gut—in retrospect, it was the first hint that some piece of him might soon go missing.†   (source)
  • I called his name, but he couldn't hear me over the other shouting, which in retrospect I realized was mostly the magus and Pol yelling at him to forget the sword and hide in the trees.†   (source)
  • Each of a hundred ships, built by the same men at the same yard to the same plans, will have her own special characteristics—most of them bad, really, but after her crew becomes accustomed to them they are spoken of affectionately, particularly in retrospect.†   (source)
  • He should have packed her into camp the minute he discovered who Blue Duck was; in retrospect he couldn't imagine why he hadn't.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, advocates of maternal health made a few strategic errors.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, Fire Extinguisher should've gotten two to the body and one to the head.†   (source)
  • But I think, in retrospect, that he himself wanted to know his own reasons for killing, wanted to examine his own life.†   (source)
  • He had spent seven years of life with Tereza, and now he realized that those years were more attractive in retrospect than they were when he was living them.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, the adults' lack of excitement should have warned us.†   (source)
  • A characteristic of all crises is their predictability, in retrospect.†   (source)
  • "I cannot, however, upon a retrospect of his education, refrain from thinking that some very capital mistakes were very indesignedly made," she would tell Mary.†   (source)
  • Now, in retrospect, the serpentine fire, shimmering several inches upward from the three wicks, impressed him as possessing greater importance than he previously realized.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, I'm not really sure how much most kids were training at that age, but at the time, I was convinced everyone was working hard to get better.†   (source)
  • I assigned it to the Trench Rats solely because of you, but in retrospect that might have been a mistake.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, those actions were not only unjust and morally wrong, they were unnecessary and did nothing to protect us.†   (source)
  • I was breathing with some labor, though, from the exertion of walking quickly and perhaps the oddness of what I was doing, which in retrospect was completely silly.†   (source)
  • She thought of the long way she had come, of the money she had earned doing the housework that she hated, remembered how for months she had condemned him in her mind as worthless, and how that judgment had been softened by time, until she had remembered only the good in him, re-experiencing in retrospect the moments of warmth, of understanding, remembering how she had made the colorful quilt, dreaming about him like any young engaged girl.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, Drizzt had to consider the small avalanche a blessing, for he had made swift progress down the mountain, and he wasn't even certain that he could have otherwise escaped Kessell's frosty fate without it.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, she supposed her actions had made a positive impression.†   (source)
  • It was only in retrospect that they came to call plain heartsease a happiness too; and though they sometimes thought that a shame, other times they thought differently.†   (source)
  • This ridiculously melodramatic kidnapping, which in retrospect seemed like a third-rate TV drama, probably had a great deal to do with his new outlook.†   (source)
  • In retrospect one must view the schism as completely awful, and irreconcilably complete.†   (source)
  • She liked to try in retrospect to correct Grandpa too.†   (source)
  • He was troubled now by dreams which he could not remember afterward and which, in retrospect, did not seem to have been dreams at all, but something else.†   (source)
  • It was when she came to the door, to walk through it, to leave this room and to leave this shape of existence forever, that realization poured upon and overwhelmed her through which, in retrospect, she would one day know that all that had gone before, all that she had thought she experienced and knew — true, more or less, though it all was — was nothing to this.†   (source)
  • That was wrong, in retrospect, as their interests proved to be in conflict.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, I guess I should have known there was a problem right then.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, using my fingers to spread the resin wasn't the best plan.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, I guess I did know how she felt.†   (source)
  • I realize we never met any of them on the Victory Tour, which seems odd in retrospect.†   (source)
  • In retrospect he decided that she had been more shocked by the hat than by his proposal.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, it was never clear that the State of Tennessee knew the game was on.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, it's like he was giving me a clue about the arena.†   (source)
  • But the Oakland Coliseum, on December 28, 1975, was, in retrospect, a seminal moment.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, the tenement PEN was like a warning of this truth.†   (source)
  • In retrospect all those anomalies make perfect sense.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, her reaction was hardly unexpected.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, it hadn't proved to be a wise decision for any of them.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, her journey to Arachne's cavern seemed like a trip to Disneyland.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, that was a pretty stupid thing to say.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, I understand he had gone to visit his bottles.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, it all seemed an elaborate act to usher the condemned onto their stage.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, that was probably not the line to lead with.†   (source)
  • RISLEY IN RETROSPECT, it says; just the last name, like a boy.†   (source)
  • In retrospect it seemed that he had made enough noise to wake the dead … those pans!†   (source)
  • In retrospect, they seemed pleased to get out of my room.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, she said, she didn't quite realize what she was getting into.†   (source)
  • But in retrospect, there had been plenty of hints.†   (source)
  • Against his bleak forecasting is set my mother's cheerfulness, in retrospect profoundly willed.†   (source)
  • But in retrospect, I realize it was also about the music.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, that mistake should have tripped every alarm bell in Conant's mind.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, he wondered how he could have missed something so incredibly obvious.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, I didn't know why I had chosen to play the hero.†   (source)
  • And yet in retrospect, it seemed as if a day never passed without someone being punished.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, the weapon was unnecessarily large for so modest a target.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, Deo thought he might have foreseen what was about to happen to the country.†   (source)
  • Many killings, he thought in retrospect, were probably the result of armed robberies.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, Joia felt she had been unfair to Deo.†   (source)
  • In their retrospect, her body, never turning, seemed to languish upright for a moment, then descend.†   (source)
  • Some, in retrospect …†   (source)
  • Such episodes appear differently in retrospect than in the heat of the moment; nobody knows that better than he, and why should it be any different for a woman?†   (source)
  • No one had believed it when Dad said yes, but in retrospect it was entirely characteristic for my father to move, in the space of a day, from no TV or radio to full-blown cable.†   (source)
  • I don't know why I was surprised to discover everything changed, since it was obvious in retrospect that I had sought to change it.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, considering Nate's background and difficulties, Juilliard in the early seventies was probably the worst environment that someone as fragile as he could possibly have been in.†   (source)
  • In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognize such moments in retrospect.†   (source)
  • But it's only in retrospect—through anecdotes we've heard from her friends, and through notes and letters we've come across since her death—that we have begun to realize the depth of her innermost thoughts.†   (source)
  • Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about them, the desirable adjunct to a civilized existence.†   (source)
  • Well, in retrospect, there was another story his godfather told that was just as worthy of emulation.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, my parents and many others made a terrible mistake in thinking the Germans who came to Narewka in the Second World War would be like the Germans who had come in the First World War.†   (source)
  • I suppose, in retrospect, some might wonder why I didn't do that, but it would have seemed like a cowardly thing to do.†   (source)
  • Much was made, in retrospect, of the fact that Root, in evening dress, charged into the rock-cold night without first putting on a coat.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, this was probably the most important moment of our friendship, the moment I could have done one thing, the better thing, and I did something else.†   (source)
  • I looked at her looking at me, and in retrospect, I think that I did feel everything gentle and fun and happy draining away around me.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, we made a comical pair of enforcers, a forty-something-year-old woman trailing an eleven-year-old boy.†   (source)
  • In retrospect I'm sure he meant this literally, that he was asking how he could help, but my ears, solitary and suspicious, heard something else: What do you expect me to do?†   (source)
  • Others were driven to what, in retrospect, was a sort of permanent state of mourning: for our loved ones, who always seemed at risk, and for our own lives, which felt so fragile and vulnerable.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, I see that this was my education, the one that would matter: the hours I spent sitting at a borrowed desk, struggling to parse narrow strands of Mormon doctrine in mimicry of a brother who'd deserted me.†   (source)
  • The book itself wasn't what was important—in retrospect, I see that it was a great read but hardly a work of great literature—but my mother used it as a hook into a deeper lesson: that the written word isn't necessarily a chore but can be a window into new worlds.†   (source)
  • The physicians concentrated first on the gash because of the heavy blood loss, though in retrospect, Travis wondered whether a different approach would have changed things.†   (source)
  • He was reminded again of that lazy summer afternoon with Catherine, when he'd come home to surprise her for lunch-a day that in retrospect seemed so fraught with signs …. yet how could he have foreseen everything that would happen?†   (source)
  • Maggie In retrospect, it would have been much simpler to place a phone call to a medical professional who might lecture me on the ins and outs of organ donation.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, she realized these had often brightened her day, even if she had sometimes found them aggravating.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, it was a bad move.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, that budget is often seen as a landmark that put America on a solid fiscal footing for the 1990s, but it was ferociously controversial at the time.†   (source)
  • And as he recalled those images, it was easy in retrospect to discern a supernatural quality to them—although he was aware that his imagination might be enhancing the memories in that regard.†   (source)
  • It was Mr. Hickey, in retrospect, who was sometimes reticent, as he would look up and nod wanly when I entered the store, and after a few weeks I'd first check to see if Mrs. Hickey was there before deciding to go inside.†   (source)
  • Lyrics that, in retrospect, have some people wondering what kids should and should not be listening to.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, it is clear that one of the major factors pushing this trend was WHERE HAVE ALL THE CRIMINALS GONE? a more lenient justice system.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, I see that God was letting me know I was only human, and that being a SEAL was just a job.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, I realized it wasn't her fault that she hadn't understood what I'd been trying to tell her.†   (source)
  • "Katherine I was the daughter of my tutor Krazy Keith, and she asked me to be her boyfriend one night at my house, and I said yes, and then about two minutes and thirty seconds later she dumped me, which seemed funny at the time, but now. in retrospect, it's possible that those two minutes and thirty seconds were among the most significant time periods of my life.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, it is frustrating that he did not follow this line of inquiry to its logical conclusion.†   (source)
  • I regard my Christian faith as the greatest gift I've ever been given, and I will dwell no more on this except to say that in retrospect, I think I always knew there was something missing in my life.†   (source)
  • This last proposition was the one Shultz pedaled hardest; it is relevant, therefore, to reproduce an opinion of it written by three Federal judges as the result of a subsequent appeal to the United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit: "We think, however, that those viewing the situation in retrospect have lost sight of the problems which confronted Attorneys Smith and Fleming when they undertook the defense of these petitioners.†   (source)
  • ' (In retrospect, it wasn't that funny.†   (source)
  • Theresa couldn't remember much about her first few days back in Boston, and in retrospect she knew she didn't really want to.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, that had been a mistake.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, I realized that the authorities could have had a myriad of ways of locating me on my trip to Durban.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, on the first day at Pasha, we should've flexicuffed the Italians and taken them out of the area, and we should've assassinated the Russian mercenary.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, Mr. Walters's liver function tests were marginally off, and that should have been a clue.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, the grossest immorality of the 1980s took place not in San Francisco bathhouses, but in the corridors of power where self-righteous leaders displayed callous indifference to the spread of the disease.†   (source)
  • IN RETROSPECT, my illness began that Sunday morning in the crystalline moment of waking to a silent house in which I knew I was alone and she was gone.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, I feel as though we went on a journey together, moving backward through his past, sometimes on tiptoes, as it were.†   (source)
  • I think in retrospect that my father had set our visit in time to help with the harvest, and certainly he was very busy outside all day.†   (source)
  • As with most unspeakable events, there were certain troublesome "ifs" involved, making it all the more painful, in retrospect, to ponder the ways in which the whole thing might have been prevented.†   (source)
  • And suddenly a light is thrown back, as when your train makes a curve, showing that there has been a mountain of meaning rising behind you on the way you've come, is rising there still, proven now through retrospect.†   (source)
  • Her name was Maria (rhyming in the Southern fashion with "pariah") Hunt, and at fifteen I had been so feverish in my infatuation for her that it seems in retrospect a small-scale madness.†   (source)
  • In retrospect I can see that it doubtless would have been unbearable to the point of imperiling her mind had she kept certain things bottled up; this was especially true as the summer wore on, with its foul weather of brutal emotions, and as the situation between Sophie and Nathan neared collapse.†   (source)
  • So remarkably white indeed that Sophie only in retrospect ever connected the lovely blanched bloodlessness with the consumption that was devouring her mother even then, and which finally stilled those hands.†   (source)
  • It seemed even sadder, in retrospect, beside the bustle and prosperity of Atlanta.†   (source)
  • How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.†   (source)
  • In a short time it loomed up as one of the Professor Kenneth Stampp concludes in his admirable review of the Sumter incident: "Although Lincoln accepfed the possibility of war, which, in retrospect at least, was the inevitable consequence of his strategy of defense …. the burden rested not on Lincoln alone, but on the universal standards of statesmanship and on the whole concept of "national interest'…… The fact remains that southern leaders shared with Lincoln the responsibility for a…†   (source)
  • Yet in retrospect nothing that we had as children made as much difference, was quite so important to us, as our summer in Cornwall.†   (source)
  • She in turn seemed to muse now, quiet, scarcebreathing, yet still with nothing of selfpity or retrospect: "I had thought of that.†   (source)
  • But though they could clearly recall the face, the smile and voice of the beloved, and this or that occasion when (as they now saw in retrospect) they had been supremely happy, they had trouble in picturing what he or she might be doing at the moment when they conjured up these memories, in a setting so hopelessly remote.†   (source)
  • I enjoy in retrospect my terribly awkward breakfasts at the Headmaster's table with toast and marmalade.†   (source)
  • The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them.†   (source)
  • —It is, in fact, a most mortifying retrospect for me.†   (source)
  • Again Judith groaned; this time no feeling of self, no retrospect of the past caused the pain.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 43 ANOTHER RETROSPECT Once again, let me pause upon a memorable period of my life.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 64 A LAST RETROSPECT And now my written story ends.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 53 ANOTHER RETROSPECT I must pause yet once again.†   (source)
  • It seems to me indeed, in retrospect, that by the time the morrow's sun was high I had restlessly read into the fact before us almost all the meaning they were to receive from subsequent and more cruel occurrences.†   (source)
  • In the retrospect it is strange to remember how soon I fell in with these monsters' ways, and gained my confidence again.†   (source)
  • The principal thing that troubled Clyde up to his fifteenth year, and for long after in retrospect, was that the calling or profession of his parents was the shabby thing that it appeared to be in the eyes of others.†   (source)
  • …since it was more difficult to imagine; he was opening the door to go, when he heard himself called back in these words (which, by cutting off from the party that possible ending which had so appalled him, made the party itself seem innocent in retrospect, made Odette's return home a thing no longer inconceivable and terrible, but tender and familiar, a thing that kept close to his side, like a part of his own daily life, in his carriage; a thing that stripped Odette herself of the…†   (source)
  • The living, suffering man was no longer before her to awaken her pity: there remained only the retrospect of painful subjection to a husband whose thoughts had been lower than she had believed, whose exorbitant claims for himself had even blinded his scrupulous care for his own character, and made him defeat his own pride by shocking men of ordinary honor.†   (source)
  • If her thoughts just now had inclined themselves to retrospect, instead of fluttering their wings nervously about the present, they would have evoked a multitude of interesting pictures.†   (source)
  • And he told him this, very strongly, with the hope of rousing him from any despondency or dangerous retrospect towards which he foresaw he might be tending.†   (source)
  • Every sad look of Hetty's, since she had been engaged to Adam, returned upon him now with all the exaggeration of painful retrospect.†   (source)
  • As Mr. Kirwin said this, notwithstanding the agitation I endured on this retrospect of my sufferings, I also felt considerable surprise at the knowledge he seemed to possess concerning me.†   (source)
  • In this pleasing, contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect, and, I cannot doubt, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not, and see it not.†   (source)
  • "Ay, ay, sir," said Mr. Deane, spreading himself in his chair a little, and entering with great readiness into a retrospect of his own career.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 18 A RETROSPECT My school-days!†   (source)
  • She had indeed many disappointments, and London at large suffered from her vivid remembrance of the strong points of the American civic idea; but she made the best of its dingy dignities and only heaved an occasional sigh and uttered a desultory "Well!" which led no further and lost itself in retrospect.†   (source)
  • I regret that my arrangements in life, combined with circumstances over which I have no control, will put it out of my power ever to fall back upon that offer or to renew it in any shape or form whatever, but it will ever be a retrospect entwined—er—with friendship's bowers."†   (source)
  • The shade of sadness cast on my mind by retrospect of this kind, was dispelled by thoughts full of gratitude to God, for the welfare and happiness of my beloved family during so long a period.†   (source)
  • I cannot tell how much I suffered in the presence of these wrongs, nor how I am still pained by the retrospect.†   (source)
  • The short dialogue with Priscilla in the garden had determined the current of retrospect in that frequent direction this particular Sunday afternoon.†   (source)
  • My dearest Fanny, I am giving you, I hope, more pleasure than pain by this retrospect of what might have been—but what never can be now.†   (source)
  • There was one main thread of painful experience in Nancy's married life, and on it hung certain deeply-felt scenes, which were the oftenest revived in retrospect.†   (source)
  • In her deep humiliation under the retrospect of her own weakness,—in her anguish at the injury she had inflicted,—she almost desired to endure the severity of Tom's reproof, to submit in patient silence to that harsh, disapproving judgment against which she had so often rebelled; it seemed no more than just to her now,—who was weaker than she was?†   (source)
  • Night and day, without interruption save of brief sleep which only wove retrospect and fear into a fantastic present, he felt the scenes of his earlier life coming between him and everything else, as obstinately as when we look through the window from a lighted room, the objects we turn our backs on are still before us, instead of the grass and the trees The successive events inward and outward were there in one view: though each might be dwelt on in turn, the rest still kept their…†   (source)
  • …read by her, on another account, with the most anxious curiosity:— "I have to inform you, my dearest Fanny, that Henry has been down to Portsmouth to see you; that he had a delightful walk with you to the dockyard last Saturday, and one still more to be dwelt on the next day, on the ramparts; when the balmy air, the sparkling sea, and your sweet looks and conversation were altogether in the most delicious harmony, and afforded sensations which are to raise ecstasy even in retrospect.†   (source)
  • Of all the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that in one retrospect I can smile at half so much, and think of half so tenderly.†   (source)
  • Whether his spirits were elevated by the communication I had made to him, or by his having indulged in this retrospect, I don't know; but they were raised by some influence.†   (source)
  • A period of introspection, a space of retrospection, then a mixture of both.†   (source)
  • As the Marchioness Manson rose to her climax her face assumed an expression of ecstatic retrospection which would have moved Archer's mirth had he not been numb with amazement.†   (source)
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