HOUSE: We're debating her symptoms, not her belatedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [LP in the House] Reference

Hence the belatedness of my take on this, one of last year's box-office hits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-07-01] Reference

They smiled at each other for the belatedness of that formality as they sat down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coelura]

I think you have more than made up for the belatedness with this wonderful celebration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summer Supper: Braised Short Ribs, Seared Salmon Steak, Spot Shrimp and Tuna Tartare] Reference

I am sorry to hear you're ill on your birthday weekend, and also for the belatedness of this 'happy birthday!.    From Wordnik.com.  [sick :(] Reference

It will also be reflected in the belatedness, the total behind-the-times-ness of today's linkage, but oh well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WritingYA Weblog: A Few Belated Links] Reference

And they've probably already read the latest David Sedaris essay, and are rolling their eyes at my belatedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Sedaris In Fine Form] Reference

Of course, God's omniscience makes belatedness on his part impossible -- and so his anger is really nothing but judgment expressed as punishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romantic Anger and Byron] Reference

What his handwringing amounts to is a refusal to recognize that in fact he has no "hedgerow envy": there is no detachment here, no belatedness at the scene of battle.    From Wordnik.com.  ['That Obscure Object of Historical Desire'] Reference

Indeed, awards themselves are sometimes motivated by a sense of this very belatedness: Green Mars wins the Hugo that, really, should have gone to Red Mars, a much better novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

I believe we must consider the belatedness as a strategy of avoidance that both conceals and reveals the use of history in imperial discourse that emerges with Romanticism itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction] Reference

I am finally catching up with the rest of the knitosphere and assaying Clapotis for evidence of the internet knitter Clapotis obsession, and my belatedness, see here, here, and my favorite here.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Light Knitting] Reference

This unsettledness seems a logical reaction, not just in lives but in artistic styles, to a sense of belatedness, a sense that there is no new terrain to stake out, just topoi among which poets can hop.    From Wordnik.com.  [no-yes : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

I recall a former colleague whose family was of the tradition that celebrated Christmas on January 6, so I feel perfectly find at spanning the whole TWELVE DAYS of CHRISTMAS with no points off for belatedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Today I Am...] Reference

Our Gentile problem arises not from our belatedness, but from our obnoxious propensity for showing up after the party has already begun, and plopping ourselves down in the seat reserved for the guests of honor.    From Wordnik.com.  [AKMA’s Random Thoughts] Reference

"Reading this forbidden," says a sign with the official government logo, and the Medusa's stone gaze constitutes an overarching metaphor for the tragic belatedness of knowledge with respect to the powers of surveillance.    From Wordnik.com.  [_Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism] Reference

The system was legalized in the United States in 1866 but not made mandatory and here we are fifty years later using the old system, with most of the civilized world looking on us with more or less scorn because of our belatedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

That sense of belatedness in a crowded field, with its consequent desire never to belong to one school, may work helpfully against the careerist drive for poets to develop Their Own Style, to learn to do one thing over and over and over.    From Wordnik.com.  [no-yes : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

This belatedness renders much of what I might otherwise say redundant, since other, better critics have previously covered most of the things I would otherwise have said here: Dan 'Hart to Hart' Hartland, for instance a much more expert Holmesian than I gets it pretty much right, I think.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-07-01] Reference

The belatedness of their publication is a matter for great regret.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

We're still playing catch-up here at LDV, so apologies for belatedness ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberal Democrat Voice] Reference

"I am something suspicious of myself, and do take notice of a certain belatedness in me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

But the oil leak crisis itself has been in the pattern of the administration's belatedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belmont Club] Reference

In the light of these, it would be hard to say what full belatedness, inconsistency, and listlessness may be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Style.] Reference

Secretary Clinton's expedient response to this belatedness is myopically one-sided; it will alienate the Southern leadership, embolden.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

And yet, notwithstanding the modestly good news, a bitter sense of belatedness -- of too-little, too-late -- pervades Congress 'long-delayed action.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

With dismaying belatedness and vagueness, some within the international community and the UN Secretariat have begun to warn Khartoum not to engage in reprisals or follow through on its threats.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Sam Spade, the Continental Op, and Philip Marlowe have no more claims to figuring reality than Lord Peter Wimsey, but their legions of kitchen-sink offspring are still sent marching into the market, redolent of belatedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [MRZine.org] Reference

Some Democrats have even called for the resignation of Timothy Geithner, the Treasury Secretary, while there have been mutterings about the belatedness of the president's announcement of a "jobs summit" at the White House in early December.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Lyrical, allusive, unconsoled -- is this sense of belatedness, a mood that is not nostalgia but is instead a kind of unreconciled yearning for the present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference

"Largely, I suppose, it is a question of belatedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

"Galloway has been celebrated for black cattle and for wool, as also for a certain bucolic belatedness of temperament, but Galloway has never hitherto produced a poetess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)] Reference

The US belatedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chavez and Bush, no fist fight in sight] Reference