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
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
The presence of Q-Tip and KRS-One, hardly agenda-setting artists any more, confirmed this feeling of belatedness.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2012
This belatedness causes a jerky motion of the arm and imparts it to the hand.
From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann
