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belatedness



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They are born, if you like, into belatedness.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2023

The future seems brighter than the past, however absurd the belatedness.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2021

The crowds reflect the belatedness of this museum, the long decades during it ought to have existed but did not.

From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2016

This sense of belatedness is the theme of “The Talos Project,” a somber and captivating video game by the Croatian studio Croteam.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2016

This belatedness causes a jerky motion of the arm and imparts it to the hand.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann


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