retrospective
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Like Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” before it, the film works best when viewed as a retrospective analysis of an entertainer’s life, and how easily cynicism can poison a child’s boundless imagination.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
Opie initially came to the attention of the art world in the 1990s for documenting her queer community and was declared the “American Photographer” at her Guggenheim retrospective in 2008.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
But they could not reconstruct with retrospective precision who stood near a location hours earlier.
From Slate • May 20, 2026
Campaigner Sherrie Smith, who founded Gypsy and Travellers Essex, pointed out that people felt they had no choice but to build plots unlawfully and then seek retrospective planning permission later.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
President Truman, who felt he had shown a valorous decisiveness in ordering the bombs to be dropped, had no tolerance for retrospective moralizing.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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