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

You can explore it all on this remarkable website, which somehow dissolves feelings of belatedness and nostalgia into a perpetual present that is banal, gorgeous and — always — heavily sign-posted.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 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

"I am something suspicious of myself, and do take notice of a certain belatedness in me."

From Milton by Pattison, Mark