belatedness

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2021

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

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

Of late years they are growing conscious of their own belatedness, and that touches a tender spot.

From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace