Word: afterthought
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That analysis, however, came as an afterthought to a session that a number of people, who addressed each other as "comrade," had spent wrangling over the politics of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. There was an urgency to the rhetoric; the angriest and least tolerant speeches got the most applause, and despite the appeal by moderator Ernest Wamba, lecturer on African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis, for people to "try hard to analyze rather than recite," those who suggested that the MPLA was being manipulated by the Soviet Union were abused and ignored...
...week in Houston, it had never been staged in the U.S. Like almost all Baroque music, it fell into neglect with the rise of the classical era in the late 18th century. During the 19th century, romanticism buried it completely. That Rinaldo has only now come along as an afterthought of the post-World War II Baroque revival testifies to two things: the unadventurousness of the average opera company and the scarcity of the special type of virtuoso singer required for the title role...
...Britain. In the U.S. most industrial unions have acted with restraint during the recession. But last week one big American city after another faced walkouts by workers who were making difficult demands in a time of shrinking resources. The "English sickness"−the affliction that makes work almost an afterthought amid the ceaseless shop-floor broil of whispered conferences, noisy confrontations and tense negotiations−is most virulent in its native land. But the rest of the industrialized world knows that it has no guarantee of immunity against what is happening in Britain...
...commented dryly: "An angry god may have endowed capitalism with inherent contradictions. But at least as an afterthought he was kind enough to make social reform surprisingly consistent with improved operation of the system...
...interesting idea for a movie, and well-cast. But in the execution the idea gets lost, and estranged from what happens on the screen. So an interpretation of the film is a faintly boring afterthought: in the theater it's clear that significant things are going on, but precisely what they are is unclear unless you force yourself to mull it over afterwards, an artificial resurrection of what you think went...