Word: retrospections
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hubris. Occasionally we prioritize getting every last detail into a story, or writing every story involving an undergraduate’s private life or a contretemps in a student group, citing the community’s “right to know,” even if in retrospect some parts of the story served as little other than gossip...
...retrospect I don’t think I was very good, but I thought I was at the time,” Duehay says, while still insisting that his experience with strategy games did prove valuable...
...retrospect, we find that Harvard didn’t do as much to protect its junior faculty as they could have,” he says. “A few young faculty members were sacrificed on the altar of McCarthyism...
...through months of intense pressure, he tells TIME, on the basis of the knowledge that "it was a highly placed law-enforcement official, and I presumed that he was in the Justice Department"--and the fact that "never once was any information he was responsible for wrong." Yet in retrospect, he adds, "if I did this again, I probably would insist on knowing who the hell it was earlier...
...basis, but real estate in China makes sense in the long term." Of course, the same was true of New York. If we'd held on to that dud apartment for a few more years, it would now be worth about three times what we paid for it. In retrospect, buying it wasn't nearly as dumb as selling...