Retrospect Sentence Examples

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  • In retrospect, it was a miracle none of us fainted.

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  • Of course, she didn't leap cars with motorcycles or sky dive, but in retrospect, she had always been attracted to danger – at least to some degree.

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  • It seems that way, at least in retrospect.

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  • Many critics point out that it is easy to take the prolific body of Nostradamus' work and mold it to fit any circumstance in retrospect.

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  • The patient may look back and recognize the symptoms of Asperger's disorder in retrospect.

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  • In retrospect Cut Piece seems dangerous, even foolhardy.

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  • Patented technology makes retrospect easy to administer, and only Retrospect delivers the fastest backups while still providing 100% accurate restores.

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  • Retrospect of various works published during the last year, new editions and new works in process.

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  • In retrospect the Zinfandel makes sense as the typical brambly characteristic of the grape could be detected but something else was helping to smooth out the sometimes harsh aspect of Zinfandel.

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  • The average age of diagnosis is between three and eight years of age; however, in retrospect many parents will say that their child displayed signs of excessive shyness and inhibition since infancy.

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  • In retrospect, the arrival of Spain's Juan Gaspar de Portolá on November 4, 1769 marks the beginnings of San Francisco tourism.

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  • The life of pleasure which he had lived in his youth comes back to him, not as it was in its actual distractions and disappointments, but in the idealizing light of meditative retrospect.

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  • In retrospect, Giddon's intent may have been to console her.

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  • Of course, she didn't leap cars with motorcycles or sky dive, but in retrospect, she had always been attracted to danger - at least to some degree.

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  • One of the most surprising (and, in retrospect, obvious) findings has been the large number of legitimate backdoors.

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  • The hero's rise to riches thus, in retrospect, becomes wholly legitimate.

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  • Some of their advice looked prophetic in retrospect, such as their prediction of widespread looting and insurgency once Saddam Hussein's regime fell.

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  • Retrospect 's patented technology provides relaible, accurate restores by compiling a list of files and folders protected during each backup.

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  • Patented technology makes Retrospect easy to administer, and only Retrospect delivers the fastest backups while still providing 100% accurate restores.

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  • Many of the predictions that Nostradamus was touted to have made are usually only right when viewed in retrospect.

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  • It had seemed a contented life at the time, but not so much so in retrospect.

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  • In retrospect the limited constitutional reforms offered to the nationalists were never likely to satisfy the aspirations of the local Arab population.

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  • This method will allow us to treat the entire world as a controlled experiment in retrospect.

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  • In retrospect, Sally Field probably regrets giving stand-up comics a line they could have fun with for years to come.

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  • His lyrics are saturated with themes of paranoia, alienation, and in retrospect, seem to romanticize and dramatize the idea of suicide.

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  • In retrospect, a quiet night on the Friday sans the finest produce from the Caledonian brewery may have been a wiser option.

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  • One great work had still to be done in prose - a retrospect of the past history of the state from an idealizing and romanticizing point of view.

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  • This trade is one of the most picturesque chapters in border history, and picturesque in retrospect, too, is the army of emigrants crossing the continent in " prairie schooners " to California or Utah, of whom almost all went through Kansas.

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  • Ten days later, supported by his sons, Gustavus greeted the estates in the great hall of the palace, when he took a retrospect of his reign, reminding them of the misery of the kingdom during the union and its deliverance from "that unkind tyrant, King Christian."

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  • Other works by Mahan are a Life of Admiral Farragut (1892); The Interest of America in Sea Power (1897); Lessons of the War with Spain (1899); The Story of the War with South Africa and The Problem of Asia (1900); Types of Naval Officers drawn from the History of the British Navy (1901); Retrospect and Prospect, studies of international relations (1902).

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  • As illustrating the rapid development of familiarity with foreign authors, a Japanese retrospect of the Meiji era notes that whereas Macaulays Esfays were ii the curriculum of the Imperial University in 1881-1882, they were studied, five or six years later, in secondary schools, and pupils of the latter were able to read with understanding the works of Goldsmith, Tennyson and Thackeray.

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  • Madison's home was peculiarly a centre for literary travellers in his last years; when he was eighty-three he was visited by Harriet Martineau, who reported her conversations with him in her Retrospect of Western Travel (1838).

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  • It was indeed from Italy that the races of the north caught the impulse of intellectual freedom, the spirit of science and curiosity, the eager retrospect towards the classic past; but joined with these in Germany was a moral impulse which was her own, a craving after truth and right, a rebellion against spiritual tyranny and corruption - the Renaissance was big in the north, as it was not in the south, with a Reformation to come.

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  • There was, in one case, a retrospect which did not include the deluge, and in another the patriarchs were actual settlers, a descent into Egypt and subsequent exodus being ignored; moreover, the standpoints of those who did not go into exile and of those who did and returned would naturally differ.

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  • The British Foreign Office report, Draining of the Zuiderzee (1901), gives full particulars of the Dutch government's scheme and a retrospect of all former proposals.

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