#Sentence with retrospect professional#
Quickly recovering his professional demeanor, though, he kindly looked up and informed me of brother’s location in the pulmonary care unit. Unaccustomed on his nighttime shift to visitor traffic, an attendant at a welcoming desk in the expansive hospital lobby seemed surprised to see me. More than a foot of snow had fallen in Rhode Island over the past two days, but the lateness of the hour and expert snow removal efforts eased my already-short trip from the airport in Warwick to the hospital in Providence. When I arrived at the hospital, late at night that same day, it was cold. She thought I should come to Rhode Island. Tim had been admitted to the hospital and was gravely ill. That afternoon, on MacArthur Boulevard in The Palisades, a sleepy little neighborhood in Washington, DC, driving from the rowing event to a rowing-themed restaurant called The DC Boathouse for a piece of chocolate cake, my brother’s partner called. To sweeten the deal, my wife and I promised minimal chaperoning. At some point there would be cake and obligatory singing.
It would be a weekend of skiing or tubing or relaxing by the fire, enjoying one another’s company. Instead, we planned a short trip the following weekend, with the family and a small group of my daughter’s high school friends, to Deep Creek Lake in Garrett County, MD. By mutual agreement, we had not celebrated her birthday yet because the weekend had been consumed by a fundraising event for our daughters’ crew team at their high school. It was a Sunday, the day after my daughter’s 16th birthday. It was not made easier when I received a phone call on February 10th, 2013. Did I want to be responsible for the unpredictable aftereffects of taking the longer path? My choice was complicated.
To me at the time, it was not an understatement to believe lives could be upended. But the burdens of secrets might be lifted too, also witnessed. I imagined feelings could be hurt because I had witnessed it. Predicting outcomes while weighing my choice was not easy. Send us feedback.I had reached a fork in my story: down one short path lay the end, my parents’ lives, and deaths, discovered, as was my intent the other longer trail led to unknown, even tumultuous, things, for me, but also for others. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'retrospection.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, Greatness should leave you craving more and Jay Electronica showed off a combination of lyrical ability and retrospection that hadn’t been seen in quite some time. 2021 Looking back from the safety of decades of retrospection, Americans often take for granted that it was all destined to go our way. Ron Charles, Washington Post, Due to its special nature, the episode required an alternative approach, one that relies heavily on old interviews, archival tape, more narration from Hirway than usual, and secondary retrospection. 2022 Between the leaves of that mournful story of recrimination and retrospection, Alharthi gently explores Zuhour’s troubled life in Britain. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2021 Mike is a Wikipedia entry punctuated by superficial sociological retrospection. 2022 Executive game filming leverages mental retrospection in the same way athletes adjust their performance after watching themselves on video. Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. Dallas News, 21 June 2022 Still, retrospection has a way of making such moments even brighter and shinier, and Jena Romanticism survived in the continuing influence of the thinkers who briefly lived there. Recent Examples on the Web The Von Erichs, whose influence on wrestling extends from the 1960s to the present day, have been the subject of retrospection for years, but this is the first time their narrative has come to a feature film.
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