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

Those assumptions were belied, obviously, by McCarthy’s success, the belatedness of his downfall, and the abuses of power that greater and lesser figures have managed to get away with since.

From Slate • May 3, 2018

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

Dear George, The "belatedness" of your letter only made me fear that I had offended you.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose