All 3 Uses of
retrospect
in
A Thousand Acres
- 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.†
p. 136.0retrospect = to review with hindsight
- 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.†
p. 172.3
- And then our cautious lives had grown intolerable in retrospect, and every possibility of returning to them equally intolerable.†
p. 322.8 *
Definition:
to review with hindsight (with the understanding that comes after seeing how things turned out)