In real life, you don't know who really won or lost (except too late), but you can tell who is heroic and who is not".
It's like the end of Don Quixote, when Quixote forsakes his life of delusional chivalry; in both cases, the hero (or antihero, however you like it) loses his faith, but he loses it too late, when the reader is already firmly converted.
Tom alights from their train ride to the country, gets left behind, meets an old school friend whose name he can't remember, drinks, hunts, and gets lost; Angela arrives too late to find him there, but thrives anyway.
But even if he wins, the organization loses: It's too late for anyone to stop marriage equality in North Carolina.
Fewer people means more space for other species we're currently pushing off the planet until we lose one that, too late, we realize we needed.
By the time the realisation came that it wasn't, a generation had been lost and it was too late.
"Can anything be done with a place considered the biggest joke and hole in north Wales?" writes one poster, while another describes it as "probably a lost cause, too little too late".
You've made a good movie, I tell Miller, as you might tell somebody they have lost weight, only realising too late this means you once thought they were fat.
Directed by Rebecca Taichman, the play was seen last fall in a co-production that bounced from American Repertory Theater to Yale Rep. Alongside Ms. Ireland, it features Steven Rattazzi as Louis XVI and David Greenspan as a sheep whose warning to Marie not to lose her head comes too late.
It was definitely like, 'Wow, look at us!' " I understand the advantages of smartphones: I've received important messages too late, become lost in the hinterlands of Brooklyn and spontaneously wanted to look up how many episodes Zack's DynaTac appeared in.
