How To Use Retrospect In A Sentence

(12 May 2006) - Three years in the business might seem like a too-brief span for a retrospective, but since 2003, Washington D. C.-based quartet the Fort Knox Five founded their own record label (called Fort Knox Recordings), remixed the likes of Tito Puente, Louis Armstrong, And Tower of Power, and collaborated with hip hop's elder statesman Africa Bambaataa-not to mention all the bodies they've got moving on the ... Cool Hunting
Once Roma were level, that incident acquired ominous overtones retrospectively.
And even those who'd retired in the fullness of time were no longer secure from retrospective investigation and changed pensionable status. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
He decided not to contest the retrospective charge. Times, Sunday Times
In retrospect, it's easy to see why we were wrong.

Methods In this retrospective study, The operation indication, result and complication fo 11 consecutive cases of artificial iris diaphragm implantation for silicone oil support eye were studied.
Perceptual displacement of cues modulated performance of the prospective component but not the retrospective component.
It also raises the spectre of the American taxman taking retrospective action against scores of US companies that have moved offshore in recent years. Times, Sunday Times
For example, the period 1945-51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve.
A retrospective influence pervaded the whole performance.
Best Mate did not look himself before the race, and in retrospect he should not have taken part, especially as we now know that he was incubating an infection and started to cough on the way home.
In the recent retrospective of Nan Kempner’s wardrobe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the late socialite’s closet was re-created in breathtaking detail — all 354 jackets and 362 sweaters — but her surprisingly undistinguished collection of handbags was relegated to a high shelf and mostly hidden. Carried Away
It is only in retrospect that we can see that the story is a kind of miniature and somewhat oversharp version of the allegory that the Glass family stories would enact. Justice to J.D. Salinger
The removal of car tax also proved irresistible to drivers but is seen in retrospect as a retrograde step, and, according to Brennan, ‘over the top’.
In retrospect, it is blindingly clear that a sudden great stress on a body stretched taut across the back has the potential to give problems. Times, Sunday Times
Experiencing the rich legacy of Ingmar Bergman is every bit as exciting as the chance to view the Turner watercolours or hear Tony Bennett perform the great American songbook, and the retrospective is simply unmissable.
DETAINING the next president of the United States for three hours in what an eyewitness called a "malodorous" small room at an airport in the provincial Russian city of Perm looks, in retrospect, to have been a pretty bad idea. Robert Amsterdam
We all have triggers that make us do things that in retrospect we would prefer not to have done. Times, Sunday Times
In retrospect, it appears we required a developed and reflexive feminist, gay and transgendered global vision to see through the prejudice governing sexuality, gender, ethnicity and the legislative restraints that paternally impose on enculturation and self-identification. G. Roger Denson: Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler
The so-called rules of music theory constitute a retrospective set of principles that describe what various composers have done in the past.
In 2000, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama mounted a traveling retrospective of his paintings.
Introspection, and retrospection were good for the cloister; but the uplook, the outlook and the onlook are alone worthy the modern Christian. Work Done for Humanity
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed a consecutive series of 202 shoulders that had undergone magnetic resonance arthrography between 2004 and 2005.
Her 1981 publication Practicing History: Selected Essays was a retrospective of her essays that she identified as weathering the tests of time. Barbara W. Tuchman.
If accounting were ‘only accounting,’ then an organization could not make predictive and prescriptive changes to its functions based on this institutional retrospection, which it surely needs to do.
Rio's Museum of Modern Art (MAM) has opened a major retrospective, "Carmen Miranda Forever" (through Jan. 22), with clips from her Hollywood hits and mounds of eyepopping bijouterie, sequined stage gowns and her patented tutti-frutti turbans. Icon: We Still Have Bananas
Guy Bourdin, the book, is the catalog of the first serious retrospective exhibition of the photographer's work curated by Charlotte Cotton for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
The life of teachers is on ‘fast-track’ and hence, to prevent it from turning mechanical, there is a need for introspection and retrospection.
In retrospect these works appear to be more experiments in new printmaking technology. The Times Literary Supplement
The retrospective and, in some cases, arbitrary nature of the tax has been deeply resented. Times, Sunday Times
This retrospective offers the first chance in 40 years to discover not only the full range but also the true depth of this painter. Times, Sunday Times
In retrospect, they could see how smoking had clouded their wairua "like a fog".
The retrospective cohort study included female patients of a large New Zealand hospital that offered centralized colposcopy and obstetric services.
In retrospect it looks almost like a portent. The Times Literary Supplement
Chick said Saturday, adding that in retrospect, the focus on HMOs alone was too narrow.
In retrospect, this period offered the best chance for a settlement.
In retrospect, I wish I had been more fastidious.
Method: Retrospection analyzes of 50 clinic files down fresh shank bones and fibulas.
They are history interpreted retrospectively, reversed and inverted - my point being that history neither begins in nor relinquishes myth.
Hm, in retrospect PITA is probably a label that is a little bit too strong verbality wise, because the mass storage support nowadays seem to work more or less as expected, so thanks for reminding me of that. OSNews
To treat with national heritage Puritanism, his attitude is criticism, and retrospect.
In retrospect, that seemed too simple. Times, Sunday Times
I tossed and turned, not due to any specific problem, but in retrospect, I realize I was worried about him going to school.
It's no use to the team on the receiving end if a player is banned retrospectively. The Sun
The great cattle freeze of the white winter had been, in retrospect, a blessing in disguise.
Writing retrospectively in The Rights of Man, Paine also celebrated the self-constituted popular committees which (Paine believed) from 1775 to 1777 successfully governed the new nation. History from Below
Amid these life-retrospective ponderings blooms a story of young love and lust.
Die Hard 2" makes "The Wild Bunch," a stomach-churner back in 1969, look, in retrospect, like "National Velvet. Violence In Our Culture
And that ref chiefs tell officials to say they have not seen incidents so that retrospective action can then be applied. The Sun
In retrospect their structure seems irrational with no clear division between territorial and functional responsibilities.
A retrospective influence pervaded the whole performance.
Fred had already dug seven metres of a mineshaft at his Grade II listed home when councillors refused him retrospective planning permission after complaints from neighbours.
A retrospective exhibition of the work of Hamish Fulton is at Tate Britain until 4 June.
So Colvert's results look a little iffy in retrospect.
In retrospect we can see LeÅniewski's obsession with the fine detail of axiomatics and his rejection of semantics as conditioned by his own idiosyncratic development and the predominant research interests of the 1910s and 1920s. StanisÅaw LeÅniewski
Having all this near the end of the show has the effect of adding retrospective weight and meaning to the beginning. Times, Sunday Times
I presume there is no question of retrospective operation of any award that would be made in this case.
It looks, in retrospect, like a ruse that went badly wrong. Times, Sunday Times
It was natural that this cynicism should infect poetic self-reflection, hence certain theoretico-aesthetic “movements” and manifestoes; I suspect, although I wasn’t there to witness what actually happened, that Ange is right in saying that certain avant garde poetry had tried to deliberately retreat from the figure; however, in retrospect, one finds that all poetic practice, in practice, was never really able do completely without the world or its actual things. Writing and Failure (Part 8) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The retrospective exhibition will include the artist's earliest work as well as his last projects - photographs that span the last half of the twentieth century.
Kusama, 82, is known as the 'priestess of polka dots' and her career is being celebrated in a major retrospective at Tate Modern. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
*** I should note that this particular nightmare is kind of embarrassingly humorous in retrospect, because the me-devouring monsters in it were obviously to an adult Muppets with the serial numbers rubbed off and huge scary bloody teeth added****. Making Light: Open thread 136
This major retrospective features some 200 works by the Post-Minimalist from the past four decades.
It's very rare for emcees to do narrative works, and even more rare for them to tackle a specific historical event retrospectively.
In 1999 the National Museum of American Art had a retrospective exhibition of the artist's works.
retrospective self-justification
He decided not to contest the retrospective charge. Times, Sunday Times
Voters may look back on an incumbent's performance in office, and cast a retrospective vote, or may compare what the candidates promise to do if elected to office, and vote prospectively.
Like all great software advances, in retrospect it was obvious: the very desktop to which the knowledge worker was bound.
Of the three remaining, two used prospective cohort designs and the other a retrospective cohort design.
Just as important, though, is a difference in function between retrospective appraisal and present judgments that have an exhortative function as much as anything else. Am I a Relativist? Well, It Depends.
But he traveled here primarily for the opening of his own mini-retrospective of five painted and unpainted steel constructions on the Met's Roof Garden (to Oct. 30), ranging over his career from the 1960 "Midday" (above) to his brand new "End Up": "End Up," 2010, rusted steel, cast iron, jarrah wood, collection of the artist, courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York Lee Rosenbaum: British Art Royalty: Sir Anthony Caro Rules the Roof
We can recollect or retrospect the nature or character of a mental event just past.
This is the first major retrospective in this country of the German painter whose pieces are as visually amazing as they are intellectually complex. Times, Sunday Times
These aren't imported words with genuine umlauts, but retrospective accents denoting a junked hyphen as in microorganisms or coordinated.
In retrospect it seems a knockdown price and the sale was not put out to competitive tender. Times, Sunday Times
This major retrospective of British sculptor Henry Moore consists of some 120 works, including drawings, maquettes, plasters, wood and stone carvings, and large bronzes.
The Pompidou Centre has already staged a major retrospective of his work. Times, Sunday Times
Enigma ends on a high you couldn't possibly predict, yet which seems inevitable in retrospect. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, there is the 1972 Edinburgh Film Festival Booklet, edited by Jon Halliday and Laura Mulvey, which accompanied a retrospective of some twenty Sirk films and contains both reprints and new material.
The hurricane of 1938 followed a path that is perfectly intelligible, in retrospect. Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth
We retrospectively reanalysed data from our single blind, randomised and controlled study of early identification of depression and pragmatic intervention by psychogeriatric consultation.
We disregarded these gathering clouds – and pretended that a period we retrospectively dub opulent and irresponsible was normal – when we might at least have been enjoying their silver linings. Whelk ice cream never meant we stopped being a Pot Noodle nation
Bronte's limited world was one of moorland and governesses, big houses and class strictures, but Boylan goes further, uncovering the underbelly of Victorian society with retrospective omniscience.
Back in the 1990s a friend, tired of the usual fan's attempts to bring about victory for Middlesbrough using the paraphernalia of lucky clothing and the like and, to be honest, during the higgledy-piggledy reign of Bryan Robson even Imelda Marcos would have exhausted her wardrobe in pursuit of something that would halt a post‑Christmas slump, determined on what appeared a foolproof scheme – a retrospectively effective charm. The winning secret of Sir Alex Ferguson's lucky underpants | Harry Pearson
Important retrospective of the British sculptor's work. Times, Sunday Times
Famous people (especially famous men) tend to get notable sayings retrospectively misattributed to them.
In 1971 a major retrospective of his work was held at the Museum of Modern Art.
The glorious uncertainties of the city bus services afford ample time for reflection and retrospection for commuters at the bus stops, it is averred.
The virtual suppression of the preconciliar Mass in the years following Vatican II seemed to share some similar qualities that are in retrospect gravely regrettable. Extraordinary Form, Montgomery, Alabama
Methods: The clinicopathological data of 6 cases with verruciform xanthoma of the oral mucosa were retrospectively analyzed, with follow-up.
Having taken prize money from the officialdom he execrated, Bernhard delights, retrospectively, in the consequences. Enfant Not So Terrible
The bombast, condescension, arrogance and swagger all seems slightly silly in retrospect.
While the rest of the world did retrospectives of the last decade in January, Capital Weather Gang took a bold look ahead to what the District might be like in 2076, America's tercentennial. D.C. weather of the future, year 2076
Adeline had no retrospect of past delight to give emphasis to present calamity — no weeping friends — no dear regretted objects to point the edge of sorrow, and throw a sickly hue upon her future prospects: she knew not yet the pangs of disappointed hope, or the acuter sting of self-accusation; she had no misery, but what patience could assuage, or fortitude overcome. The Romance of the Forest
In retrospect, he joins the long list of those who verbally dueled with George and came out worsted.
Bankers are quick to condemn retrospective tax legislation.
In retrospect, maybe this was the wrong thing to shout. Times, Sunday Times
In retrospect, I think one of the things we didn't have is that we didn't have any political pull.
In retrospect, one other exchange stands out. THE LAST PARTY: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock
It said it didn't have to decide on whether the fact that CGU had filed for a trademark that it should have retrospective rights on everything with that trademark in.
Rather than rescue the late work, this retrospective ends an iconic American career not with an exuberant yawp, but, sadly, with a whimper. Height and Depths of Expression
This retrospective case note review of 203 penetrating keratoplasties with adequate follow-up data during a 5-year study period from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2003 at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, were used for analysis. Naturejobs - All Jobs
In 1946, the New York Museum of Modern Art had a huge retrospective exhibition of Marc Chagall's prints and paintings.
In retrospect it looks almost like a portent. The Times Literary Supplement
In retrospect, I should have rescheduled our session that day, or at least provided better direction during the session.
After dinner we went back to Fed Square to see A Tale of Springtime screened at cinematheque as part of the Eric Rohmer retrospective that's taking place over the next few weeks.
The relationship of his art to his country's dark and momentous history is perhaps the most powerful force that shapes this retrospective. Times, Sunday Times
These results are consistent with retrospective reports of infant irritability, insomnia, and colic among inhibited children.
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. Bob Hope
The measure, which was retrospective for 12 years, was introduced followed lobbying by the Irish Georgian Society, the National Heritage Council, Bord Failte and Rohan himself.
In the second act, Hamlet immersed himself in fraught retrospection over Ophelia's death.
Retrospective Diagnosis Using the first technique, researchers found dozens of possible AIDS cases from medical records dating back to the 1930s.
In doing so he drew on what in retrospect seem "commonsensical" positions and "middle of the road" values. Archive 2009-05-01
In retrospect, it's easy to see why we were wrong.
“Well,” said Mr. Gresley, refreshed by a cheering retrospects. Red Pottage
But if you haven't paid enough because you've spent half your life back-packing around the world, you are allowed to make retrospective contributions for up to the past six years.
The retrospective and, in some cases, arbitrary nature of the tax has been deeply resented. Times, Sunday Times
Symphonic music tended to be retrospective, with Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven forming the staple fare and accounting for the conservative forms of Schumann's and Mendelssohn's orchestral compositions.
A Dutch retrospective cohort study covering two flu outbreaks found that acute respiratory disease occurred in 26% of unvaccinated children and was most common in those under 6 years.
Section 3 of the Law Reform Act provides that section 4 is not retrospective.
Elizabeth, who died an unlamented old bat, metamorphosed retrospectively into ‘Good Queen Bess’.
The problem of retrospective awareness of the deleterious effects of mining is difficult to deal with.
In retrospect it might have been worth conceding the point and paying that extra penny but I've never been a quitter and some things, like holding people to their pledges, are worth making a stand for.
Only in retrospect did we become aware how lax US airport security had become.
In retrospect, we should have insisted on checking his calculations, but it's easy to be wise after the event.
The Victoria and Albert Museum is celebrating the centenary of the photographer's birth in 1904 with a retrospective exhibition of his work based on prints from the Bill Brandt Archive.
This retrospective exhibition presented works spanning the five-decade-long career of William Clutz.
So, in retrospect, maybe Jay-Z and Beyonce shouldn’t have hired the world’s gobbiest florist to decorate their apartment, because that florist – Amy Vongpitaka – has pretty much blabbed off about every single little aspect of their wedding in excruciating detail to a magazine. Jay-Z & Beyonce Really Married After All, Then
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is now hosting the first major Rockman retrospective, entitled -- with a nod to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring -- "Alexis Rockman: A Fable Tomorrow".
In retrospect, that is a conservative agenda.
This is a further reason why any change to the terms of judges' remuneration should not be retrospective and should apply only to new appointees. Times, Sunday Times
These works, part of a bequest from Jochen Schneider, patron and friend of the artist in Kampala, were the specific stimulus for the retrospective exhibition and its catalogue reviewed by Kasfir.
It retrospects the evolution of the academic concept of "peaceful development" in his historical perspective. Historical perspective on peaceful development - "Losing out on epic, peace and development, big time"
Retrospectively, we looked at airway flow tracings, identifying the start of slow inflation.
However, an ellipsis indicates the omission of words which clearly show that the complete passage by Inglis Clark had nothing whatever to do with retrospective laws.
In retrospect he criticized one of his old drawing masters for encouraging students to copy from photographs.
Previous retrospective assessments in younger samples of childhood victimization and neglect have found that neglected boys and girls were at higher risk for arrests for violent crimes.
The second sequential component to happiness is the phenomenon of retrospective recall.
Well, I'm not sure this proposal is retrospective I prefer the term retroactive, actually. Grabbing Sir Fred Goodwin's pension
Juniper," replies the other, "I think the ` aversions, 'as you call them, belong to you and not to me, if I may judge by your aversion for poor Jacob; and as for ` retrospects,' I think the less I say about them the better. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found
If listed building consent was necessary for the work, you can apply for retrospective consent or pay the buyer to insure against enforcement action. Times, Sunday Times
Although in retrospect that seems unlikely. Times, Sunday Times
The results of a retrospective analysis are specific to the observed variation in the vital rates, and can be extrapolated to other situations only with great care.
Another important ground rule is that participation in exercises during a retrospective is optional.
And when would the retrospective tax end? Times, Sunday Times
METHOD: There were 73 patients with central-type lung cancer underwent sleeve lobectomy trachea-bronchoplasty whose clinical data were retrospectively analyzed.
The decision was not retrospective, and existing holders of the Griffith College degree were told they would have to complete the two-year King's Inns diploma course before being allowed to take the exam.
Are not the historian's tools - of retrospection, selection and re-engagement - those of the novelist? The Times Literary Supplement
New Guidelines from the AHA on prevention of Infective Endocarditis Extensively analysis of literature on procedure-related bacteriemia and infective endocarditis, results of profilactic studies in animals, and retrospective and prospective studies of the prevention of infective endocarditis. Random feeds from Syndic8.com
Featured exhibits included landmark retrospectives of two major European photographers' works.
Objective To evaluate the effects of secondary posterior chamber lens implantation for aphakia in children. Methods Forty consecutive pediatric aphakic eyes were retrospected.
His retrospective exhibition featured only 123 of his best works, but many more have come to light since, and continue to do so.
Despite much mature retrospection, I can't unsay those mean comments to Mom, undo what 18 years of smoking did to my lungs, nor unwrite the cringe-inducing history of my high school social life.
What was unremarkable to contemporaries, in other words, is precisely what seems most puzzling in retrospect. How Wars end
Her renown grew steadily after that, a large, posthumous retrospective of her work appearing at the Modern in 1972.
In retrospect, I could have tried some montage of a tea packet with the skull and crossbones, or maybe picked something out from the perforations in a tea-bag.
The magazine had science articles - in retrospect often pretty "fringy" or pseudoscience-based, yet always interesting Biology in Science Fiction
In retrospect it's obvious how we went wrong.
Rio's Museum of Modern Art (MAM) has opened a major retrospective, "Carmen Miranda Forever" (through Jan. 22), with clips from her Hollywood hits and mounds of eyepopping bijouterie, sequined stage gowns and her patented tutti-frutti turbans. Icon: We Still Have Bananas
And that ref chiefs tell officials to say they have not seen incidents so that retrospective action can then be applied. The Sun
The great cattle freeze of the white winter had been, in retrospect, a blessing in disguise.
The rules are not retrospective, but it will mean people who use trusts in the future will be forced to sell up, move out, or pay the tax.
Just as he was about to make what, in retrospect, can be identified as his breakthrough, he detoured into a series of conceptual works involving photocopiers and fax machines.
Retrospective condemnation is easy — this was a largely anti-Semitic population that had embraced the psychological and material benefits bestowed by a homicidal regime, and that remained inert in the face of what we now call genocide. Hitler's Co-Conspirators
The former owner of the scrapyard, Ray Bocking, visited the travellers and told them that the council had originally helped lay the hard core, flying in the face of council leader Tony Ball's assertion that the site is green belt land and not suitable for retrospective planning permission. Battle lines drawn as Dale farm travellers brace for eviction face-off
Both sets of trials have been clouded in uncertainty due to a recent constitutional amendment which prohibits retrospective prosecution.
It's no use to the team on the receiving end if a player is banned retrospectively. The Sun
Currently, much of the archival work reconstructing the administrative framework of the deposited documents is carried out retrospective to their creation.
The result is a satisfying blend of Bonington retrospective and survey of landscape painting in the 1820s.
Methods A retrospective review of 14 patients with intracranial tuberculoma was conducted including the clinical manifestations, diagnosis and surgical outcomes.
Her fight with the unions was not as predictable as it seemed in retrospect. Times, Sunday Times
Only rarely is there a sudden flash of insight and this is usually retrospective.
Even then, there are hints of Derek's darkness that are only obvious in retrospect.
I managed to get assignments to write the retrospective biographies of Raymond Massey and Burl Ives.
Methods: The clinical data in 86 patients with GP were analysed retrospectively and statistically.
This retrospective editing of something as well known as Oliver Twist makes all social liberalism appear ridiculous. Times, Sunday Times
Bankers are quick to condemn retrospective tax legislation.
It is hard in retrospect to think quite how we contrived to slalom through last week.
And it is quite apparent to me, in retrospect, that without Mostel's comic genius this might be a very wearisome play to watch.
Enigma ends on a high you couldn't possibly predict, yet which seems inevitable in retrospect. Times, Sunday Times
In retrospect, I think my marriage was doomed from the beginning.
Far from marking any new direction, it is a retrospective, scattershot double CD of unreleased tracks, alternate mixes and rare B-sides.
In retrospect, however, he could have thought of something snappier than connexity. Times, Sunday Times
This album was largely whimsical and retrospective, with a subtle sense of humour, even through the more serious numbers.
A New Museum retrospective suggests that Adrian Piper's aggressively provocative work is as much the product of her genes as of her fervid talent.
I began this retrospective, Volume XV of "The Welte Mignon Mystery" series, with those inscriptions Edvard Grieg made 17 April 1906 and here reproduced on the modern Steinway in stereo - such a tonic after the scratchy, well-nigh acoustically impossible shellacs he cut that had appeared on Pearl. Audiophile Audition Headlines
In retrospect, that is a conservative agenda.
It hovers so close because like life, it's often unfair, unpoetic, plain contradictory, and retrospectively embarrassing - few of Darnielle's stories have chronicled passions so unadorned and believable.
However, the fuel supplement will not be charged retrospectively.
Long after the farewell he was kept passive by a weight of retrospective feeling. Daniel Deronda
Which reminds me: in Amadora, in lovely Portugal, they are having a career retrospective for me, which I wish I could have been at (as soon as I master the whole bilocation bit, I'll start turning up at a lot more places).
There might be some retrospective legislation and one day they'll come around and take your computers away and name you in the paper.
The trouble with retrospection - especially the kind of hagiographical retrospection that comes with a box set - is that it lends everything added poignancy.
First Jonathan, which had been, in retrospect, a mere blemish on the horizon.
For example, the period 1945-51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve.
It appears in retrospect that we simply did not have enough troops on the ground at that time to guard those ammunition dumps.
Objective Through retrospective analysis of the effect of one-to-one responsibility system deliver, probe into the best intrapartum health-care service mode.
The color photographs were excluded from both his subsequent retrospectives - in part because they were color, and 35 mm at that, but chiefly because they are not what viewers have come to expect from Morris.
She felt a pang of retrospective sympathy for Mel.

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