Word: hindsighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oral history with him in an evening and alone, and it's rather hard to stop when the floodgates open. I just talked about private things. Then the man went away, and I think he was very upset during the writing of the book ... Now, in hindsight, it seems wrong to have ever done that book at that time...
WITH TIME comes perspective. In the case of Watergate, perspective gave rise to "hindsight;" in the world of football, it created the Monday morning quarterback; and in the dispute between Harvard and the Buildings & Grounds (B&G) carpenters, the passage of time has tempered emotions, turning a blazing confrontation into a controlled flame...
...left, and together constitute a movement we label German Expressionism. But this label has generated a parasitic stereotype of artistic self-indulgence that sucks the blood of particular meaning from each artist's work. Part of the problem is that the history of Expressionism has all been written in hindsight. Even these few statements left by the artists about their art were, for the most part, made after the cataclysm of World War I. Those of the first generation who wrote of their previous work saw it as though it were an image shattered--carefully restored...
Meidner's work may well have seemed prophetic in hindsight. After the war, his images captured the German experience all too effectively. His work seemed to presage the new preoccupation with social criticism. Grosz, for example, never could have believed, as Kirchner did, that "an artist's drawings will never be superfluous since they have that which is the essence of art--beauty beyond purpose or morality." Drawings such as Grosz's Christ with a Gas Mask (1928), or The Gratitude of the Fatherland (1920) are both purposeful and moralistic. Grosz even used the codified morality of Christian iconography...
...this slow development from the adolescent's misconception to his understanding of the old man, added to the hindsight of the grown-up narrator, that makes the characters come alive. In his leisurely, rambling pace, Taylor gives the reader a superb description of the Old South...