Word: hindsighted
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With hypercritical hindsight, Anne has now decided that "I was very phony in high school. I was terribly shy, and I got aggressive to cover up that awful shyness." But what bothers her most about those years is the memory of someone else winning the school drama medal. The teacher's explanation-that the winner of her choice needed encouragement more than Anne-still rings false. The grown woman seethes with rage and searches for understanding of her girlhood slight...
...conversation between Stempel and Enright that made their collusion unmistakable to any normally skeptical man (TIME, Sept. 15, 1958). Only later, after other charges became public and a grand jury began to investigate, was the show taken under direct NBC control, and finally dropped. Said Kintner: "By hindsight, we recognize we should have dug deeper...
...qualms about appearing on a [rigged] quiz show?" Answered five out of six: No, I'd take the money. No amount of public naivete or cupidity could excuse the networks' lack of responsibility. Said CBS's Stanton: "As I see it with the benefit of hindsight, we should have been more thoughtful and critical...
...Thomas Eakins, by Fairfield Porter, views the greatest of American masters through a reducing glass, calls him "outside of his time, because his intuition was hindsight," and yet is a consistently brilliant and fascinating offbeat analysis...
...humanity under pressure that are reminders of what is noble in man. Mydans' first taste of war came on the Finnish-Russian front in 1940. It is typical of him that he does not rehash the politics of that cynical war, or play the omniscient journalist with hindsight. What he remembers best is the first Russian prisoner he saw: a frightened, ignorant peasant reduced to blubbering tears by the offer of a cigarette from his Finnish captors, and later brought to hysterical laughter when he realized that Mydans' camera was not a deadly weapon. Then, having been decent...