It was evident that she had been prepared to weep, for she had provided herself with a sufficiency of handkerchiefs; I admired her forethought, but in retrospect it made her tears perhaps less moving.
Scrap's fears that she would grab seemed grotesque in retrospect.
It seemed short to her in retrospect, but it had really taken the whole of the first year of their marriage, and every inch of the way had been a struggle, and every inch of it was stained, she felt at the time, with her heart's blood.
In retrospect, I can compare home to an unyielding plant: it may be burnt down by wildfire, but it will sprout again when the spring breeze blows.
In retrospect, I've come to realize that one of the ways I learn is "error-based.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
His mother, Laura, blames herself: "In retrospect, I see that I gave Patrick technology to play with, to the virtual exclusion of the more traditional toys.
In retrospect, he stands by that judgment.
"In retrospect, it was weird to hire a dropout from Reed, " Alcorn recalled.
"In retrospect, a Nash Metropolitan might seem like the most wickedly cool car," he later said.
In retrospect, the larger phenomenon of "Star Wars" represented what looks like the inevitable product of demographic and social forces.
In retrospect, we can see that early researchers made the mistake we now call the "AI fallacy": they assumed that the only way to perform a task to the standard of a human expert is to replicate the approach of human specialists.
None of these changes could easily have been predicted; some are rather mysterious even in retrospect.
The thing with wisdom, and often with life lessons in general, is that they're learned in retrospect, long after we needed them.
It's always difficult to negotiate in retrospect.
Miriam Beard Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
"In retrospect, I think that might have been a mistake.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
George Eliot (1819 - 1880) Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.