retrospection

How To Use retrospection In A Sentence

• And the fact that he would have been one hundred years old in January 2004 makes retrospection perfectly appropriate and homage nothing less than proper.
• Brookfield was therefore without pretensions -- it could hardly be called 'a place '-- but, manifolded in dreams past and present, it extended indefinitely before Alice's eyes, and, absorbed by the sad sweetness of retrospection, she lingered while Olive ran through the rosary from the stables and back again, calling to her sister, making the sunlight ring with her light laughter. Muslin
• some psychologists tried to contrast retrospection and introspection
• He had grown his intellectual ego, by learning the art of retrospection and sober second thought.
• Soon after the lords had quitted him, the buoyant elasticity of his figure, which before seemed ready to rise from the earth, so was his soul elevated by his sublime resolves, gave way to melancholy retrospections, and he threw himself into a chair with his hands clasped upon his knee and his eyes fixed in musing gaze upon the floor. The Scottish Chiefs
• Interestingly, Stevenson's fondness for retrospection does not seem to have blinded him but rather to have sharpened his sensitivity to seeing.
• Finally the retrospection of the past practices raised the speculation beyond the architectural design.
• Dealing first with the issue of retrospection, Mr Elias expressed the view that the indemnity could not operate retrospectively so as to apply to acts done or decisions made prior to the coming into force of the indemnity.
• Marinetti, described as ‘The Caffeine of Europe’, was setting out to rid European art of its lethargy and retrospection in a new movement that demanded room for youth, violence and daring.
• The past is therefore not bathed in the light of retrospection, but is presented in the ordinary, nondramatic tones of immediacy.