belatedness

Example Sentences

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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

But he was conscious, too, of his own belatedness.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2021

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

My wretchedness was heightened by the effect of this lonely Amen, whose belatedness he accentuated by the fervent manner in which he breathed it out.

From A Marriage at Sea by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)