Word: retrospection
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Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni called a timeout in an attempt to rally his troops. In retrospect, the damage was already done...
...alcove by the soda machine; another gulf lay between those Goths and the swaggering boys who affected a gangsta style. Each of the major clothing-based castes was further subdivided; the school’s social structure was as well-ordered as any ant colony’s. In retrospect, it seems odd that 2,000 suburban high school students believed themselves so splintered by ideological differences that they required sharply divergent wardrobes. At the time, though, we all asked ourselves the same two-part question the high school girls put to us Saturday night: “What will...
...retrospect, Bingham can be excused for concluding that Machu Picchu was the holiest of Incan sites. Its inaccessibility certainly suggested that. So did some of its apparently religious structures, which were built with distinctive three-window designs, evoking the legend that the Incan people were created by three brothers who appeared through a trio of portals. And the large percentage of uncovered skeletons that Bingham's expert determined to be female suggested the remains of an Incan nunnery...
...felt initially that if I wrote a script for someone that it would be helping them,” he says. “I guess I would say in retrospect I should have known better, but I learned...
Although the Palfreys said they had considered this issue before they chose to speak out, they and others said that in retrospect, students were mostly unconcerned by the message...