belatedness

The belatedness of their publication is a matter for great regret.

Now, with surprising belatedness, she had thought of a decent alternative.

They smiled at each other for the belatedness of that formality as they sat down.

Harold Bloom is right: belatedness is not merely an "historical condition".

Someone called Sebastian says that he has named the movement to follow post-modernism; it is called belatedness.

In our culture, so much preoccupied with belatedness and exhaustion, the vitality of this medium is particularly invigorating.

Robyn's generation, coming up to university in the early 1970s, immediately after the heroic period of student politics, were oppressed by a sense of belatedness.

But that word "first" stamps the poem with a lovely air of aroused virginity, not one of suspicious belatedness.

But the circumstances of the statement and its belatedness left the impression that it had to be dragged out of Mr. Walesa.

None of this right-to-the-point e-mail stuff, or apologies for belatedness, or arch "anent: whatever."

Indeed, Mr. Grasso's belatedness in promoting corporate reform, both within the exchange and at the companies it lists, is another reason he should step aside.

Suffering the "malaise of belatedness" Mr. Bloom attributes to our age, he seeks release from a world he sees growing ever darker.

As soon as this "solitary individual" was elevated to the status of an alter deus, the essential belatedness of human creativity became glaringly obvious.

Theory will always be more fascinated by notions like 'belatedness' and 'exhaustion', because by implication they magnify the status of theory in relation to creative work.

The problem for new biographers of Conrad is one of inescapable belatedness, for discovering something fresh and valuable about the writer is surely difficult at this date.

When would the new generation overcome its hobbling sense of belatedness, of being perpetually in the shadows of the aging young lions of the old New Hollywood?

"The Waste Land," like Pound's "Cantos" and Joyce's "Ulysses," is a tissue of allusions, a confession of belatedness.

Instead, it seems suffused with a sense of belatedness and loss, as well as an acute awareness that abstraction functions as a sign of the realm of the spiritual.

Here were all the great Bloomian notions - "misreading," "belatedness," "originality" - employed to unseat not merely T. S. Eliot but Christianity itself.

The present urge to destroy cities is thus merely another index of the belatedness of the economy's subordination to historical consciousness, the tardiness of a unification that will enable society to recapture its alienated powers.

The Giants straining at the hawser dropped behind her one by one as if their knotted muscles and arched backs, the prices they were willing to pay in Covenant's name, measured out the tale of her belatedness.

There's often a vague feeling of loss or belatedness or impinging mortality - an awareness that "like all good things / life tends to go too long" - or else a sense of opportunity missed, choices not made.

Said finds these works representative of late style, though his description is more suggestive of a sense of belatedness: an artist believes that the tradition has been exhausted; its weight cannot be overcome, so it is struggled against, without hope of resolution.

The Soviet news blackout came under fire today not just from Armenian crowds in Moscow and Yerevan but also from the official newspaper Moscow News, which said news from the troubled region was characterized by "belatedness and sparseness."

No creative artist ever really accepts the fact of belatedness, even if he or she finds it useful - or temperamentally congenial - as a pose: a way of avoiding unwanted comparison with the giants of the past by appearing to admit defeat in advance.