Word: hindsight
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...Central Independent Television and France's Antenne 2. Assembled by a multinational team that focused on America but gained access to Communist Viet Nam, the 13-part report is fair and generally balanced. It speaks more in sorrow than in anger, without accusations or the smug wisdom of hindsight and with sensitivity to the tragedy of what started as a noble cause...
Such an account in other hands might be a pompous progression of rave reviews, gently tinted by hindsight. Not here; Houseman has an adequate ego, but he is caustic and funny, a wry observer of theatrical furies and hysterias, including his own. He admits, stout fellow, to taking on the direction of a hopeless Jane Fonda film (The Cool of the Day) simply because it is to be shot on location in Greece and he wants a vacation...
Born in 1945, Alexander was raised in Texas swamp country-Beaumont, near the Louisiana border. One might not deduce that from his work but, with a little hindsight, the paintings suggest it. They have a marshy, embrangled look full of thickets of line and pools of darkness. Their peculiar sense of space (which looks incoherent in reproduction, but at full scale is not) is recognizable at once to anyone who has gone through swamp: no horizon to be seen, only a succession of angles that, when the eye pushes through them, disclose more tangles beyond. The light is murky. Such...
...from childbirth. Small wonder that Victorian women ingested vast quantities of alcohol and opium patent medicines. Inveighing against these tranquilizers of the age, one physician declared, "Their manufacturers are deserving of a place in the deepest part of the bottomless pit." His foresight is an astonishment; Green's hindsight is an education...
...even if the hindsight argument had any legitimate basis, the fact remains that McCloy to this day has no remorse for those unjustly imprisoned. He has made it clear he would not give a dime to any of the internees--to do so would be to "perpetrate injustice," he says. He takes this inexcusable position even with the benefit of hindsight...