belatedness
Example Sentences
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They are born, if you like, into belatedness.
From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023
You need not equate him exactly with his stand-in to see that in “Leopoldstadt,” by punishing Leo for his belatedness, he is punishing himself for his own.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2022
A central part of literary critic Harold Bloom’s theory of artistic influence is belatedness, the feeling an artist experiences upon realizing that everything he or she hoped to say has already been said.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2019
Rommel is all too aware of the belatedness of his efforts, and the fact that time is running out.
From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2017
Galloway has been celebrated for black cattle and for wool, as also for a certain bucolic belatedness of temperament, but Galloway has never hitherto produced a poetess.
From Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
