untimeliness

“The inordinate and unexplained untimeliness of the States’ motion to intervene on appeal weighs decisively against intervention,” said the unsigned order from a panel that included judges nominated by presidents of both parties.

“In this case, the inordinate and unexplained untimeliness of the States’ motion to intervene on appeal weighs decisively against intervention,” wrote Judges Florence Pan, Justin Walker and Patricia Millett of the U.S.

Her death in its own right, Bolton notes — its apparently accidental nature coupled with its untimeliness — accounts for a lot of her enduring mystique.

But just as it’s possible to assemble an argument for why Maxwell matters now, it’s also tempting to make a case for him based on his untimeliness, his embodiment of old-fashioned literary virtues.

But Murphy is only fifty-five; I hope that there will be lots of time—and that his own untimeliness, the very mark of art, will itself become the engine of his art.