retrospect

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In retrospect, its uncompromising litmus tests and chilly demeanor were real weaknesses, creating a pervading fear that any false step could expel one from good graces, and that a return trip was always, always treacherous.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026

In retrospect, piracy was a salvation for film historians as it means that Melies' work lives on.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

In retrospect, crossing to the “other side,” as it was called, had turned out to be the lucky—or, at least, less unlucky—choice for the approximately 300,000 Polish Jews who had headed east.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

In retrospect, those difficult weeks offered a preview of what would happen in Minneapolis just a few weeks later.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

In retrospect, we made a comical pair of enforcers, a forty-something-year-old woman trailing an eleven-year- old boy.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore