| A consumer economy is intrinsically future-oriented — if you don't want an Apple Watch, then belatedness awaits you — although growing older makes you belated, too. |
| Some explore the feeling of belatedness — of being left behind by one's changing surroundings and belonging, irretrievably, to the past. |
| I apologise for the belatedness, because these correspondents were ahead of the curve. |
| This belatedness causes a jerky motion of the arm and imparts it to the hand. |
| The reception of British surrealism has more often than not been coloured by a sense of its belatedness. |
| The ambiguity of the Government of Canada's position and the belatedness with which it sent a clear message demanding Maher Arar's return prolonged his detention. |
