belatedness
Example Sentences
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But the cost of belatedness is real for her too: Every time we spoke, she was “muerta,” “despilada,” “exhausta,” run ragged by relentless institutional demands.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 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
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
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 Ambrose Bierce
