Word: hindsighted
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...event, I realized in hindsight, is clearly better fodder for the visual media. The camera crews, shutterbugs, and paparazzi clicked and whirred furiously, trying to investigate and memorialize Maria Sharapova’s cleavage. Meanwhile, I was wracking my brain trying to think of questions for Annika Sorenstam, for whom the room had gone silent after four or five queries...
Although locals claimed not to have noticed anything unusual, all three men, in hindsight, had shown proclivities for radical Islam. Khan is said to have traveled regularly to Pakistan and Afghanistan for military training, according to a friend who spoke to the BBC. After Hussain got into some fights at his racially divided school, he went to Mecca on a pilgrimage with his father, who then sent him to study in Pakistan, hoping the teen would gain discipline. When Hussain returned to Leeds, he grew a beard and began dressing in traditional Muslim clothes. Tanweer visited Pakistan several times...
...described as an influential "father figure" to them. A local official told the Guardian he had reported to the police his suspicions that the center was being used as a front to radicalize young men. Though locals claimed not to have noticed anything unusual, all three men, in hindsight, had shown proclivities for radical Islam. Khan is said to have traveled regularly to Pakistan and Afghanistan for military training, according to a friend who spoke to the bbc After he got into some fights at his racially divided school, Hussain went to Mecca on a pilgrimage with his father...
...hindsight of history, we can see that Stanton knew what he was talking about. But how was it that Lincoln turned out to be so exceptional a writer and that it was so little apparent to his contemporaries? Studying Lincoln's writing over the years has convinced me that most of the factors that contributed to Lincoln's extraordinary literary achievement were invisible to his public and were even contrary to its general sense of who he was. As a child, he was fascinated with words and meanings and obsessed with clarity, both in understanding and in being understood...
...hindsight it is easy to evaluate what should have been done in the case of Vitaly Yurchenko [NATION, Nov. 18]. Though the CIA officials in this instance may have acted naively, any repression of Yurchenko would have been a far greater mistake. The world should applaud the U.S. for allowing Yurchenko to make and carry out his own decision on what his future would be. We in the U.S. should see this as a triumph rather than a failure. Richard S. Wagman Lawrenceville...