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...over and enable us to meet any crisis as it arises. We will respond slowly, but that is the nature of a democratic society. In those few periods of our history when we suspended basic guarantees of the individual in times of great national emergency, we often found, in retrospect, that we had overreacted...
...quarter of a century ago, the exhausted and half-leveled Continent of Europe declared an end to World War II. It was V-E day, the moment of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allied forces of the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union. In retrospect, May 8, 1945, was not the joyous release from conflict that it seemed to anyone who still remembers that bright spring day. Within a few short years, a cold war would descend on the Continent, turning it into a zone of seem ingly permanent confrontation. Last week the nations that battled...
...imagining. University Hall could rally people last year because it was cast as a symbolic action (for we never conceived of not giving it back to Harvard). It did not help to stop the war or end Harvard's oppression of the working people of this area, but in retrospect, we seem beyond really expecting that sort of causal link in our actions...
...seized the property of royalists who had fled to Canada. The French-without whom victory would have been difficult-helped considerably. To the nobles, "freedom" had died; for the Americans self-determination had been gained. Those who felt it wasn't necessary ("peaceful channels") look quite silly in retrospect. All new systems go through a dictatorial phase, and that is tragic. But outside powers who do all they can to crush new systems always make matters worse.8 Amory =3, Cambridge
...even nonexistent my contact with them. I remember it made me feel terrible about myself when some guy I'd been watching in class didn't notice me and come talk to me, or, if he did, that he didn't seem to want to know me better. In retrospect it seems really weird-I guess I was going around offering myself up totally to any encounter I had with men, whatever the situation. Some people say that's really good, to be totally open in any encounter, but how can it be done when it comes from feeling that...