Meanings of seem in retrospect in English

It was also, strictly speaking, an academic event, making my column intro seem in retrospect a little cheap.

This trip was quite an adventure, I thought to myself, little knowing how small a one it would seem in retrospect.

If anything, her bristling humour and intellect made it seem in retrospect as though she had been rather slumming it in those trumped-up B-movies.

Congress had enough foresight in the Reagan years to set privacy rules for electronic communications, regardless of how primitive those communications tools seem in retrospect.

No doubt I exaggerate, but that's how it seems in retrospect.

How long those years seemed in retrospect, and yet how short!

How beautiful they seemed in retrospect, and how raw and ugly they had been in fact.

But for all that I cannot quite explain the golden content that seems in retrospect to have overspread the whole house.

The rise of the Masters, the youngest by far of golf's major tournaments, seems in retrospect to have had a certain inevitability.