belatedness
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The future seems brighter than the past, however absurd the belatedness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
Those assumptions were belied, obviously, by McCarthy’s success, the belatedness of his downfall, and the abuses of power that greater and lesser figures have managed to get away with since.
From Slate ● May 3, 2018
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
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 J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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