"It's a small but overdue positive step if it leads to action," David Clohessy, a leader of the survivors network, said of the private meeting with five victims from the Boston area on Thursday.
A small but significant move, if a little overdue (it was announced in May).
"This is a small, long-overdue step forward on a very long road," Joelle Casteix, southwestern regional director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, said in a statement.
Now, a little overdue, she's back.
Why, for example, do the Mr Men books work so incredibly well when they seem to have been produced at speed with a pack of elderly felt pens by a small boy with an overdue school project?
The change is a small one, but long overdue.
So the stonecutter was sent back to the plinth with his chisel, and, in a small but important way, long overdue, and with everybody looking, history was made right.
6. OVERDUE -- A small show of work by women, "Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art in the 1970's," at White Columns was a reminder of the audacity of early feminist art, the continuing influence and the abiding need to have its history documented in full-scale exhibitions.
"In the eyes of many, in addition to the low-key extension of social security to cover them, the government should offer the war veterans an official apology – a small step toward the long overdue recognition of their war efforts," News China, the English-language edition of the mainland magazine China Newsweek, said in a story about the veterans in its November issue.
While we're on the topic of the Jimmy Carter "malaise" speech, an historical footnote — a small addition to the record — is overdue.
