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hindsight

— noun understanding the nature of an event after it has happened hindsight is always better than foresight

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retrospect

remembrance

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Simple sentences

That's hindsight.

In hindsight it is hard to decide whether this project was a failure or whether its side benefits made it a success.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

With the benefit of hindsight, we can see things which should have been done differently, or not at all.

Movie subtitles

Only when they are threadbare. will the people be able to understand. by hindsight, the greatness of our time. because of what you, my Leader, mean to Germany!

It's hindsight - changing'old friends for new.

I'm willing to lower my hindsight.

In other words, with the benefit of hindsight, it's obvious.

Your hindsight is great.

Or perhaps you may feel, comrades, with the advantage of hindsight. that Mundt's escape from Britain was a little too brilliant. a little too easy. that without the connivance of the British authorities. it never could have been possible at all.

Will you knock off the hindsight and try to figure out a way to get me out of here?

With the benefit of hindsight, maybe it wasn't such a hot idea.

I mean, would it have been wiser, you know, with hindsight.

That's a determination others will make in hindsight.

Diane, if you think about this with a modicum of hindsight, you.

He didn't have the luxury of hindsight, he had to call it.

Okay. Hindsight being.

Well, that's the beauty of hindsight.

I was a horse's hindsight for coming here in the first place.

Anybody can have hindsight, my boy.

Originally intent on an academic career rewriting Victorian novels with the benefit of hindsight, he was side-tracked by an interest in music to make a fortune, which he sunk into property, literary ephemera and psychic drawings.

Hindsight is a wonderful gift, Mr. Hawke.

And I'm not about to have a bunch of paper-pushing civilians with 20-20 hindsight telling me any different.

Which, in hindsight, turned out to be an error.

And how does your hindsight explain breaching our 12-mile limit. with a sea launch?

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

In hindsight, Nathalie left me hanging like that on purpose.

And I guess in hindsight, it was all a big mistake.

I think what sealed it, in hindsight, is when we heard that noise on the landing.

Perhaps in hindsight.

Oh, well. Hindsight's twenty-twenty.

Well, I suppose in hindsight I could have. it could have done with a bit more work, really, and, um. some parts of it were. were weak.

And I suppose again, with the benefit of hindsight, after I got off the rope, I should have gone and looked, into the crevice, to see where he was.

I mean, but everything's twenty-twenty in hindsight.

Are you proud, in hindsight, of what you pulled off?

You are? - I was interviewed for Hindsight, with John Beard.

News and current affairs

But 30 years of hindsight enable us to judge which elements of the Thatcher revolution should be preserved, and which should be amended in the light of today's global economic downturn.

With hindsight, I believe we sold its assets too quickly.

In hindsight, these exchange-rate swings mirrored the initial collapse and subsequent rebound in global trade, helping to mitigate the recession.

In hindsight, it is all too obvious what should have been done.

We have the benefit of hindsight today, but even now most discussions of the issue are predicated on the logic of Limits to Growth.

In hindsight, it was a mistake to believe in the euro's spontaneous community-creating power.

What was radical, with hindsight, was the turn that events took during the 1980s.

The Chinese-US trade relationship may have seemed like a marriage made in heaven - between practitioners of the mercantilist and liberal models, respectively - but in hindsight it is clear that it merely led to a blowup.

Only with hindsight can we see that China's innovations were truly demanding reforms.

But, when we do, let us remember that hindsight is 20-20.

In hindsight, Greenspan was wrong.

Twenty years ago, we were gripped by fear that Japan would overtake our economic leadership - a concern that was unfounded then and, in hindsight, looks profoundly mistaken.

Of course, hindsight is always easy.

With hindsight, it is clear that Britain's participation in the Iraq war was driven solely by Blair's determination to stick limpet-like to the US.

Nonetheless, in hindsight, containment infused an order and organization on US foreign policy that is absent today.

In hindsight, the 2012 French Presidential election could well be remembered not so much for Hollande's victory and the triumph of normalcy, but as the decisive step in populist parties' long march to power.

So, as 2014 winds down, it is worth asking ourselves, with the benefit of hindsight: Have we at the European Central Bank reacted swiftly enough to maintain price stability in the face of threats, as our mandate requires?

Who, with hindsight, has prophesied correctly?

With hindsight, one can identify other deficiencies in the euro of which its architects were unaware.

Three decades later, millions of chastened Iranians wish they could relive those heady days differently; their Pakistani counterparts would be wise to heed their hindsight.

But it is much easier to reach such judgments with hindsight.

Was this, in hindsight, all in vain?

These changes are likely to make today's attempts to find an equilibrium yuan-dollar exchange rate seem just as chimerical in hindsight as previous calculations of the yen-dollar equilibrium rate.