Word: afterthought
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Butterfield's explanation for revealing the presidential bugging appeared to be a self-protective afterthought. He said that he knew both Haldeman and an assistant, Lawrence Higby, had been quizzed by the committee staff, and he assumed that they must have been asked the same question and answered it honestly. He said he also assumed that the President planned eventually to use the tapes in his own defense...
...movie is cocky about its polish, to the point where the idiosyncracies of its characters over-shadow the detailed clues of what is a finely wrought plot. The clues seem presented only in afterthought, back-fitted into an otherwise superfluous setting. Sheila does not heighten interest in the hunt for the murderer's identity, as a good mystery film should. It is always more interested in showing off its cast, its settings, and its special effects...
...feminist, for she is hardly outspoken about it. In Jo's Boys, where the grown-up Jo from Little Women runs a school for boys, there is little talk of women's rights in the outside world. In the boys school, the girls are first admitted almost as an afterthought. But as the school develops, the boys and girls compete on an equal level, emotionally and socially. And the girls are trained both for their lives as mothers and as professionals. It is true that most marry, but for the boy who is a violinist, there is a girl...
...Kissinger's latest Asian swing included three days (19 hours of meetings) in Hanoi and four days (21½ hours of meetings) in Peking, but he stopped in Japan for only a day (2½ hours of meetings), and it seemed almost like an afterthought...
When pioneering publisher Joseph Pulitzer established the prizes, he hoped that they would have the effect of inspiring young journalists and generally raising the level of American journalism. But when he was drawing up his will, it occurred to him almost as an afterthought that some of his fortune might be used to establish awards for excellence in journalism. "Incidentally," he wrote. "I strongly wish the College [Columbia] to pay from the large income I am providing, a sum of | | in annual prizes to particular journalists or writers for various accomplishments, achievements and forms of excellence...