Sentence examples for overdue rather from inspiring English sources

(The scene in which Georgia takes off all her clothes to illustrate the difference between nakedness and the vulnerability of intimacy seems thuddingly gratuitous.) In the end Lesnewski comes to the same sad end as the man who inspired the playwright to create him, but it feels inevitable rather than tragic and overdue rather than much too soon.

The next year, Republicans on the state's budget committee quietly slipped a measure into the budget through a last-minute Motion 999 to allow payday lenders to declare a loan in default a mere 10 days after a payment was overdue, rather than the 40 days as previously reported the Capitol Times' Jack Craver.

I still suspect a crack is overdue, but 2006, rather than 2005, now seems the most likely date.

Absolutely, the companies say, and analysts and consumer surveys suggest that both companies have made substantial, if rather overdue, strides in the last three years in improving vehicle reliability.

Book publishers, well aware that there's a brave new world of digital content just around the corner and keen to exploit their backlists, as well as any future titles, across as many platforms and devices as possible, are in the midst of the rather overdue process of securing digital rights from their authors.

It is, rather, woefully overdue attention to the core issues of reckless greed and arrogance that did so much to get us into the current fix.

Chiang Kai-shek's government on December 9 , 1941 formally declared war not only against Japan (a formality long overdue) but also, with political rather than military intent, against Germany and Italy.

The rent is overpaid rather than being overdue and the healthcare system actually turns out to owe our couple money.

They talk bravely about an overdue market correction and a shake-out rather than a bubble.

He's got six in tournament football, so he could conceivably go past my total and that would suggest England are doing rather well, which is long overdue".

Mind you, I'd rather say: I finally went on a long overdue trip to my first hippie festival and took part in some Buddhist meditation sessions.