belatedness

Example Sentences

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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

The very idea of belatedness, so central to Bloom’s theory, was, in Ozick’s view, anathema to the Jewish tradition, according to which there were no latecomers.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 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

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