Word: hindsight
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...this sort of thing is only significant seen in hindsight; after all, the Shah makes a lot of unfulfilled threats in the same paragraph. Your techniques tend to elicit statements that may or may not have any relevance to the way these political figures act, statements that pamper to unsubstantive psychohistory...
...spectacle of Watergate unfolded before our eyes two years ago--in court appearances, press conferences and Congressional committee investigations--it was gripping enough to require no dramatization. With the cynicism of hindsight, we may realize now that Sam Erwin was a bucket of North Carolina hogwash and John Sirica less than a man on a white horse and Sam Dash far from the best lawyer around. But at the time, events needed neither the sugaring of attractive personalities like Dustin Hoffman's nor the spicing of palace corrider gossip such as we taste in The Final Days...
...sympathetic readers will lose patience with its sloppy style and careless organization. But if we can believe this book, it narrates a tragedy: Allende, blinded by his trust in legality and the integrity of the generals, refuses to depart from constitutional tactics in order to defend his revolution. With hindsight, Rojas points out the fatal errors of disarming the workers and preaching restraint, which together destroyed the only potential check to military insurrection...
...second game with Boston College came close to fulfilling expectations, and indeed at the time seemed to be a turning point in the season. With 20/20 hindsight, it is easy now to see that B.C. was suffering from the same problems of disunity which have plagued Harvard all season. Harvard's 79-65 victory, by far its best performance of the year, is washed down with the honest realization that the Eagles were equally to blame for bad basketball on that night in the IAB, that the Crimson's finest showing must be swallowed with the proverbial grain of salt...
...cities and towns where much of Ford's strength lay: Keene, Nashua, Durham, Portsmouth and Dover. He erred by campaigning in Illinois the day before the primary; New Hampshire Campaign Manager Hugh Gregg, a former Governor, had advised Reagan that further stumping in New Hampshire was unnecessary. In hindsight, an unhappy Reagan strategist concluded, "That's when we should have been going full bore. The situation was that volatile...