belatedness
Example Sentences
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Yet you come upon them with a feeling of belatedness — as if you somehow missed the revelry and are left to survey the morning’s detritus in solitude.
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
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
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)
