Indeed, at the point at which I picked it up, Obama's memoir had been published for about 12 years, and was belatedly becoming a US bestseller on the rising tide of support for the candidate's winning and optimistic "Yes We Can" campaign.
"It feels like these issues are kind of finally, belatedly becoming part of the mainstream conversation," he said.
But spool forward five decades from the couple's 1958 wedding and the pair jointly boasted a clutch of honorary degrees, a CBE, an OBE and then ultimately a knight- and damehood – Cleo first claiming the latter in her own right, before belatedly also becoming Lady Dankworth, when the royal sword kissed John's ageing shoulders.
Cassandra had belatedly become a much-celebrated prophet.
By that time his exploits were becoming belatedly known to a wide public, for in London in August 1919 an American war correspondent, Lowell Thomas, had begun an immensely popular series of illustrated lectures, "With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia".
Freed from its utilitarian purpose, a washed-up rubber glove has belatedly discovered an artistic vocation, becoming a piece of sculpture.
By some estimates, 750,000 people now blog, and the number is growing daily.Because blogging is becoming so popular, people are belatedly pondering its economics.
Cookson, who led the organisation for 17 years before becoming UCI president in 2013, belatedly contributed to a review into the culture of British Cycling's performance programme.
Google belatedly realized that its engine was rapidly becoming a top conduit for spreading the anti-Obama rumor mongering hate and shut down several of the more blatant anti-Obama sites.
And now, after overcoming apparently unfounded reports of a link to toxic shock syndrome, belatedly establishing a consumer-oriented advertising campaign and becoming the best-selling non-prescription women's contraceptive in America, the question is not whether there is a tomorrow for Today, but rather what VLI can do for an encore.
The source of nine-tenths of the world's heroin, Afghanistan is just one step away from becoming a narco-state.When NATO belatedly expanded its remit to the turbulent south and east, the foreign soldiers were often seen as the protectors of rapacious local officials and a threat to small poppy farmers.
