Examples of retrospection in a Sentence

This is a time of retrospection for many people. the president is confident that future retrospections will cast his actions in a more favorable light

Recent Examples on the Web But the Obama years loom particularly large across the Pacific region—and the retrospection is not all rosy. — Timothy Mclaughlin, The Atlantic, "Barack Obama’s Legacy Abroad Looms Over Joe Biden," 17 Nov. 2020 David Sedaris, one of the great American humorists, has reached the age of retrospection. — Heller Mcalpin, The Christian Science Monitor, "Humorist David Sedaris delivers his choicest material in ‘The Best of Me’," 3 Nov. 2020 Armchair general managers love the what-ifs created, and in some cases, the regrets realized in retrospection. — Dallas News, "Is Trae Young buying Luka-mania? Hawks guard says it’s ‘hard to really judge’ who won the trade for Doncic," 18 Jan. 2020 But this is a retrospective about retrospection, and the situation is not without a certain resonance. — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, "The Master of Unknowing," 25 Apr. 2020 There is an unevenness to the novel’s texture and tone, deriving in part from a failure to employ retrospection effectively to either heighten tension or illuminate the characters’ actions and motivations. — Deepa Anappara, New York Times, "His Nation in Turmoil, One Boy Finds Refuge and Adventure in Friendship," 17 Mar. 2020 Honorable Mentions Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory, anchored by a career-best Antonio Banderas, was a remarkable piece of retrospection from a cinematic master that inspired me to revisit many of his past works. — David Sims, The Atlantic, "The 10 Best Films of 2019," 5 Dec. 2019 Considering the full, bloody scope of some of his greatest works, The Irishman is a work of real retrospection. — David Sims, The Atlantic, "Martin Scorsese’s Epic Funeral for the Gangster Genre," 1 Nov. 2019 The line brings us back to the book’s center, a space of retrospection. — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, "Joy Harjo, the Poet of American Memory," 29 Aug. 2019

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