Word: hindsighted
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...Time to Die is enormous. On both sides of the wall, gibberish and eloquence, madness and reason know no race, class or educational background. As Wicker watches political power dissipate through the state's bureaucracy and firepower build on the walls surrounding D-yard, the outcome-even in hindsight-looms with the inevitability of Greek tragedy. The impact of Wicker's book shatters the convenient forgetfulness that cocoons disturbing memories. Even his thin, novelizing technique, which includes writing about himself in the third person singular and larding the narrative with bits of autobiography, does not lessen the book...
...wishes to see someone dead are routine and generally harmless ways of letting off steam. But many therapists wonder if juries will think so if a patient later really decides to kill someone. "It means," said Psychiatrist Robert L. Marvin of San Francisco, "that a jury can decide by hindsight whether a doctor has used the best professional judgment...
...unfortunate that they didn't get more for the land, but of course that's easy to say with hindsight," says Putnam. "I'm not being critical of my predecessor...
...Hindsight is a word that comes up often in conversations about the Land-Vest purchase, but no one at Harvard seems too anxious to use it. They would prefer to close the Land-Vest case once and for all, pointing out that the deal went through almost two years ago and that nothing can be done about it now anyway...
...standards can have practical benefits. Last week, for instance, President Ford signed a long overdue campaign-financing reform bill. The voters of California have approved a stringent anticorruption measure. But there is also a tendency to condemn prematurely and to burn today's leaders with the laser of hindsight. It is a particularly painful period both for public leaders and for a people in need of leaders who merit confidence...