Sentence examples for belatedness from inspiring English sources
'belatedness' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it as a noun to refer to the state or condition of being late or delayed. For example, "I apologize for the belatedness of my reply."
noun
The state or quality of being belated or of being too late.
That note of weary belatedness, of numb grief tempered by keen memory, begins to sound as soon as the guns fall silent.
One source for the sense of hollow belatedness in Petterson's work is likely the disaster that occurred in April , 1990 when the Oslo-to-Frederikshavn ferry caught fire, killing a hundred and fifty-nine people, including Petterson's parents, his brother, and his nephew.
Sheila is full of arrogance and insecurity, and a sense of weary belatedness: "I look at all the people who are alive today and think, These are my contemporaries.
Some explore the feeling of belatedness — of being left behind by one's changing surroundings and belonging, irretrievably, to the past.
It was beyond outrageous to witness the Reagan Administration's belatedness on AIDS, its indifference to the deaths of so many; and it was beyond outrageous to see homophobia be a tenet of the Moral Majority movement at precisely the moment when so many were dying.
But now is not the time to belabor my belatedness.
A consumer economy is intrinsically future-oriented — if you don't want an Apple Watch, then belatedness awaits you — although growing older makes you belated, too.
As prose, those books are enormous achievements, but they are buffed up with belatedness.
Bloom loves Emerson and Whitman but he doesn't believe them: to him, belatedness is now a permanent condition of man, and there can be no overcoming it-no return, even in America, to an original fullness or freshness or purity of spirit.
He makes much of the notion of 'betweenness,' or 'relatedness.' He traces gen (ken) back to its earlier form, aida or aidagara, which refers to the space or place in which people are located, and in which the various crossroads of relational interconnection are established.
Again applying the chosen criteria, familiar patterns are recognizable: unevenness, as compared with the United States; belatedness in Argentina the cuento infantil is hardly detectable before 1900; and especially an unbalanced polarity, with didacticism decidedly the stronger magnet.
