Examples of using "Recul" in a sentence and their english translations:
In retrospect,
I cringed.
Tom took a couple of steps back.
In hindsight, this was a mistake.
But then you need to step back
I cringed.
For him this is the last pushback in Frankfurt.
Let's all take a step back and think.
The truth is always obvious in hindsight.
- The decline isn't so sharp after seasonal adjustment.
- The decline is not as sharp after seasonal adjustment.
I believe that we have truly lost our perspective.
and I wanted to take a step back and look at the big picture
With 20/20 hindsight, he could tell why they lost the game.
The biggest caveat of using social media is reduced privacy.
and everything is focused on that, and we lose perspective.
The student cringed when he heard the principal's voice.
maybe we can try to take a step back from these questions,
Really makes you take a step back and realize how adaptable these animals are.
A pet theory of mine is that things should be seen from a distance.
Napoleon gave Davout a role which - in hindsight - seems a disastrous waste of his ability.
The real estate industry is in a serious slump, and industry people say the worst is yet to come.
With the benefit of hindsight, we can see things which should have been done differently, or not at all.
- Americans wanted to impose the idea that a book or a movie should be considered the same as any commercial object. For they understood that besides the army, diplomacy and trade there is also a cultural war. It's a battle they intend to win both for noble reasons -- the United States has always felt that its values are universal -- and less noble ones: the education of minds is the best way to sell American products. Consider that cinema represents their most important export, ahead of weapons, aerospace or computers! Hence their desire to impose English as a global language. Even if we can observe for the last two decades a decline in their influence.
- The Americans wanted to impose the idea that a book or film should be treated like any commercial object, because they understood that alongside the army, diplomacy and trade, there is also cultural war, a battle that they intend to win both for noble reasons — the United States has always opined that its values are universal — and less noble ones: the formation of minds is the best way to sell off American products. Consider that the cinema represents the top rank of American exports, far ahead of weaponry, aeronautics or information technology! Hence their desire to impose English as a world language, even if there has been a two-decade decline in their influence.