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
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
My wretchedness was heightened by the effect of this lonely Amen, whose belatedness he accentuated by the fervent manner in which he breathed it out.
From A Marriage at Sea by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
