Returning belatedly to face a crisis that was swallowing up his country, Mr. Mobutu included the complaint in virtually every public statement that he had been "stabbed in the back" by his neighbors.
Is Labour's project to return belatedly to Miliband's ideas about responsible capitalism and "pre-distribution" – or, as some people call it, what to do about inequality – and aim at starting to reshape Britain in a fairer and more sustainable way than the coalition have managed?
And then, as a shamed press returned to action – belatedly dismantling the pretext for the war and disclosing the abominations of Abu Ghraib, the pattern of civilian casualties, the use of torture by our own government and our Iraqi allies – the nation, like Snowden and Manning, had its collective disillusionment.
In return for the Statue of Liberty, New York had belatedly returned the favour by sending its dark emissaries to the City of Light.
He only reluctantly and belatedly returned the White House flag to half-staff and said some kind words about Senator McCain after his recent death.
When he belatedly returns, Roberto is confronted with his dead fiancee and her company of Willis: the spirits of betrayed maidens who dance unfaithful lovers to death.
Various Schreker operas are belatedly returning to the stage, but "Der Schatzgräber" (The Treasure Seeker) was the most successful of them all, racking up about 50 productions after its 1920 premiere in Frankfurt.
The 2014 Italian crime drama, whose second season belatedly returns this week, capped off its first run with an adrenaline-charged crescendo of plot shocks and gratuitous killing that made The Godfather look like Gilbert and Sullivan.
Now, belatedly returning to my parents' homeland, I found myself not on the Black Sea, where my grandmother was born and buried, or in Ankara, where she lived, or in my father's home city of Adana, where my aunt still lives.
Last week, the network confirmed that Deadwood – David Milch's peerless, profane exploration of frontier psychology in gold-rush South Dakota – would belatedly return in the form of a movie tying up all the loose ends left over after its abrupt cancellation in 2006.
