8 sentences with 'retrospect'
Example sentences and phrases with the word retrospect and other words derived from it.
• « This was, in retrospect, a somewhat surprising conclusion given when the narrative was invented. »
• « In historical retrospect, however, slavery undermined both Roman productivity and the pace of innovation in Roman society. There was simply no need to look for new and better ways of doing things in the form of technological progress or social innovations because slave labour was always available. »
• « In retrospect, the historical significance of the Gracchi was less in their reforms and more in the manner of their deaths - for the first time, leading Roman politicians had simply been killed (or had killed themselves rather than been killed) for their politics. It became increasingly clear that real power was moving away from rhetoric and towards military might. »
• « Iconoclasm was one of those phenomena that may seem almost ridiculously trivial in historical retrospect, but it had a huge (and almost entirely negative) impact at the time. For people who believed in God's constant intervention in the smallest things, iconoclasm was an issue of enormous importance. »
• « One method (amusing, in historical retrospect) that kings used to punish unruly vassals was simply to visit and feed them away from home and hearth - traditions of hospitality required vassals to welcome, feed and entertain their king for as long as he felt like staying. »
• « Instead, what is clear in historical retrospect is that the first centuries of Ottoman rule had been so successful in creating a political culture centred in Constantinople that the empire remained intact regardless of what happened in Constantinople: trade flowed, local elites prospered and there was little sign of dissent in the vast expanse of Ottoman territory. »
• « Instead, what is evident in retrospect is that centralised states with legal control and the right to raise taxes throughout their territory began in earnest during this period, introducing new legal and political patterns that would only expand in the following centuries. »
• « While Europeans at the time were obsessed with the vast mineral wealth to be found in the Americas, in historical retrospect it is clear that far more important than precious metals were the living things that were traded between the western and eastern hemispheres of the planet from 1492 onwards. »