Word: hindsight
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...avoided the temptation to criticize the Democratic Administration by hindsight. With rare restraint, he made no attempt to fix the blame for past mistakes. "Those things are done," said Dewey. "The question is what lies ahead...
...This time by hindsight, pure & simple...
Commented South Carolina's Democratic Senator Olin D. Johnston: "Mr. Hoover's hindsight appears to be as bad as his foresight...
...thinks so, and has written a book to prove his point, is German-born Dr. Siegfried Kracauer, who apparently knows a good bit about both psychology and German movies. As sociology, Dr. Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler (Princeton University Press; $5) depends pretty heavily on historical hindsight. As movie lore, it may fascinate cinemagoers who know little about German films except that they gave the world Marlene Dietrich, Peter Lorre, Emil Jannings and Director Fritz Lang...
...peacetime spectacle of a great nation audibly, visibly, reportably in crisis is seldom presented to working journalists. The anatomy of its disaster is usually exposed to the world's view only through the hindsight of historians...