Word: hindsighted
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With remarkable hindsight, other Vatican observers were quick to find reasons why Wojtyla's election made sense...
...hindsight, one can easily see where they got their language: how Gorky's spidery, fluent line emerged from Miro, how the bulging shapes of early de Kooning derive from '30s Picasso, what Rothko got from Max Ernst and Pollock from Kandinsky, and how deeply Adolph Gottlieb's pictographs were influenced by Victor Brauner. But that is perhaps of secondary importance. What counts most in this show is the spectacle of those obscure but desperately committed artists painting as though art had the power to change life, as though culture itself depended on their efforts: which...
...story of Robert Altman's dramatic rise from obscurity seems interesting primarily as an apparent confirmation of the old meritocratic myth--as a demonstration of American society's receptiveness to new, independent ideas and recognition of talent--hindsight suggests the story has a rather different, ironic significance. In retrospect, Altman's decision to make M*A*S*H* can be seen as typical of the approach to American culture that characterizes his film career to date. In making M*A*S*H*, Altman was not confirming the old American mythology at all; he was attacking...
...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...