Word: retrospect
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...clear what degrees, if any, Jones actually earned or where else she may have attended school. In retrospect, inconsistent accounts of her education in the press and other sources could have raised red flags...
...kind of jumpy,” Wilson says. “I definitely got beat down a couple of times.” “We used to just have these insane BB gun wars,” he continues. “Thank God, in retrospect, that nobody lost an eye. We had the rule of no shooting above the neck, and people got shot in the ear and the Adam’s apple and the forehead, and it was basically just insane.” Fear not: a Wilson death-by-BB-gun seems unlikely...
...group’s eponymous debut was—and it was quite good, a stunning bricolage of everything danceable from the past three decades—it wasn’t adequate preparation for the band’s newfound nuance, or their emotional breadth. In retrospect, it’s easier to see LCD’s first release for what it was: a little lazy and a bit too cute. The double-album format was an excuse to reissue Murphy’s DFA singles on the second disc, and the first frontloaded the fun, partying...
...seem logical, in retrospect, that a combination of awe and rebellion made Einstein exceptional as a scientist. But what is less well known is that those two traits also combined to shape his spiritual journey and determine the nature of his faith. The rebellion part comes in at the beginning of his life: he rejected at first his parents' secularism and later the concepts of religious ritual and of a personal God who intercedes in the daily workings of the world. But the awe part comes in his 50s when he settled into a deism based on what he called...
...this indulgent, self-laudatory narrative is mistaken. Likewise, modish militant atheism (Richard Dawkins and the like) misses the mark; shrill, self-righteous atheism may be sexy—oh so radical, sure to infuriate the parents—but it’s like kicking a dying horse. In retrospect, talk of a new 20th-century great awakening will be seen as the last gasp of a bygone era, as the Americans catch up with the godforsaken Europeans...