Word: hindsight
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...weeks ago blurred into the desolate industrial landscape like so many slabs of sheet metal. For whom the sign's message is intended has always been unclear; CSX trains only carry freight, and it's too far away for motorists traveling the nearby interstate to view it. In hindsight, though, one can only wonder whether the sign is intended for that small population of train jumpers who somehow make Flint a destination...
...easy in hindsight, the petty politicking of the race for council president and vice president thankfully behind us, to say that the referenda on increased grants to student groups and block grants to house committees should have been held at the same time as the election to garner better turnout. All too easy, perhaps, but entirely appropriate. While we strongly opposed the referendum, we oppose even more strongly the actions of those four council executives who delayed the referendum in order to quash the student voice. Higher turnout would have resulted from a change in the voting date, allowing...
...account of Neruda's exotic childhood--Spanish-Cuban father, Jewish mother--and his later adoption, after both his parents had in diverse and perverse ways betrayed him, by his fabulously wealthy maternal Uncle Bernie. As he does throughout the novel, Neruda interrupts his story with bracketed explanations of psychoanalytic hindsight. Recalling a family gathering at which he noticed the blossoming of his cousin Julie, he interjects, "[Strangely, perhaps hilariously, I must attempt to explain my interest in her breasts...
...hindsight, the need for an anticommunist emphasis by the Yeltsin campaign--the need to "go negative"--seems self-evident. But when the Americans first harped on anticommunism as the "only" route to victory, many in the campaign resisted. And despite their status and patronage, the Americans had to fight long and hard before that core strategy was accepted. As Dyachenko told the team after reading the memo, "We have many factions and each has its own view, but most everyone agrees that with communism coming back all over Eastern Europe and with Stalin's reputation rising here, a campaign based...
...hindsight shows, Harvard was about to win seven games...