Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When there's no happily ever after, revisionism can really set in. What was ill-advised can in retrospect look involuntary. If you meant not to, wished you hadn't, know you shouldn't have, you can rationalize saying you didn't and not think of yourself as a liar. Some forms of withholding information are sanctioned. Alcoholics Anonymous, which otherwise insists on brutal honesty, allows an exception for not telling your spouse about affairs. Annulment, when an applicant says he lacked due discretion to enter into marriage, is a form of sanctified lying about...
...retrospect, several signatories expressed regret over the public release of the letter, which was intended for Rudenstine's perusal only...
...Retrospect...
...retrospect, I'm glad I held my saliva. I've come to believe that universal access to the 'Net is no longer a luxury. It is a technological necessity for the equitable spread of true and genuine democracy...
...There was certainly a premium put on a certain posture of worldliness at The Crimson," Kinsley says. "In retrospect, it is somewhat comical...