Word: hindsighted
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...movement, have always been exploitable commodities. When swathed in the rhetoric of one side or the other, they gain momentum and become issues: impounded in books and supported by experts, they gain time and become history. But rarely are they presented to us without the benefit of afterglow or hindsight-and yet it is only when they stand alone that they permit us to remember the past in its own peculiar light and to see the present as growing from that past...
...clarity of hindsight; some of these decisions may appear to have been erroneous and the failure to take others a mistake, but we believe this to be true also of government at all levels . . .," they added...
...sitting on cases in which he might have had a financial interest, Blackmun last January excused himself from a Ford case to which he had been assigned. Blackmun says that now he feels he was wrong in taking those earlier cases, small as they were, but considers it hindsight. "In the more tense atmosphere of recent years, we don't do this...
...seemed to be a normal life to me," Henry Fonda reminisces. But no child comes equipped with bifocal hindsight, least of all a Fonda. Almost from the start, the public roles and the private lives were at catastrophic odds. Steinbeck stated what the kids only felt: "Henry is a man reaching but unreachable, gentle but capable of sudden wild and dangerous violence. His face is a picture of opposites in conflict...
...Patton persuaded his audience, he took in himself; the author and his persona became inseparable. Scott shows that strange, mad process and demonstrates how courage could become, in time, suicidal. General Patton is too complex a period piece to be seen by the film's Viet Nam-informed hindsight. His proper epitaph is Scott's intricate portrayal, and the standard enlisted man's complaint, uttered when Patton became known by the sobriquet "Old Blood and Guts." "Yeah," said the soldiers. "His guts. Our blood...