in retrospect

Related to in retrospect: lacklustre, preliminary, prioritise, sought, supplemental

in retrospect

Considering or analyzing the past, with the knowledge that one has now. In retrospect, we shouldn't have invested so heavily in one sector, but there's no way we could have known about some of the risks. It's one of those lessons that you can really only learn in retrospect.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

in retrospect

 and in hindsight
reconsidering the past with the knowledge one now has. In retrospect, I would have gone to a better college. David realized, in hindsight, that he should have finished school.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

in retrospect

Looking backward, reflecting on the past. For example, In retrospect, he regarded his move as the best thing he'd ever done. This idiom employs retrospect in the sense of "a view of the past." [Second half of 1600s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

in ˈretrospect

thinking about a past event or situation, often with a different opinion of it from the one you had at the time: In retrospect, I think that I was wrong. The decision seems extremely odd, in retrospect.
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

in retrospect

In looking back on or reviewing the past.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See also:
  • drive (one) out of office
  • force (one) out of office
  • force out of office
  • give (one) (one's) head
  • give head
  • give somebody their head
  • give someone their head
  • cooking for one
  • 1FTR
  • as one door closes, another opens
References in periodicals archive
That's really what you were saying about the Narrative in Retrospect, that the diminished seventh chord is the permeating sound in both the Chopin [Ballade in G Minor, which is quoted in the Narrative in Retrospect] and in my work.
The octatonic scale also seems to be the basis for your hexachord [E F-sharp G B-flat C C-sharp] in Narrative in Retrospect and is used in the Chopin Ballade in G Minor.
Incidentally, it's a particularly interesting hexachord in Narrative in Retrospect because of the curious organization of that hexachord, which is very traditional.
then the first few notes of the "Ballade" theme quoted in Narrative in Retrospect.]
An interview with Ross Lee Finney
Unfortunately, in retrospect, neither reserve was raised sufficiently during the real estate boom.
Statement by Richard F. Syron, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Before the Committee on Small Business, U.S. House of Representatives, July 2, 1992
Now McNamara has changed his mind about talking and written In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam.
In Retrospect does, however, reveal one big lie: the fiction that President Kennedy was unaware that his administration was in the assassination business, with Fidel Castro as the usual target.
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
In retrospect it was the best gallery experience I ever had."
As Bolande remarks in retrospect: "Peter and Alan were much more commercially minded and tuned in to the changes taking place in the art world and the world of collecting."
Infotainment: Thomas Lawson on media moguls
The boycotters' initial goals appear in retrospect embarrassingly modest.
Bombed churches can seem romantic in retrospect; while they evoke suffering, they sing of righteousness and community as well.
In retrospect, the use of children against police dogs and fire hoses seems an act of genius.
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963
In retrospect, it's proving very important to my practice--more so than the Tate project, a hermetic, introspective work that was, to some extent, the victim of its own success, so noisy and congested that viewers couldn't experience it as I'd intended.
Borges comments that certain works can't be parodied because they are already self-parodic, and in retrospect I see that my piece reiterated what the ICA as an institution already did--does--to itself.
A Thousand words Mike Nelson Talks about his recent work