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  • He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.

    Winter   Night   Light  
    Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.97, Booklassic
  • Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.

    A Little Book in C Major ch. 5 (1916)
  • While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

    Mistake   Home   Iraq  
  • At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a young man. The age that Jesus Christ died. The age that Scott Fitzgerald started to go downhill. That age may be a kind of crossroads in life. That was the age when I began my life as a runner, and it was my belated, but real, starting point as a novelist.

    Running   Jesus   Real  
    Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.47, Random House
  • Happy belated birthday, Cat," he said, giving me a self-deprecating smile. "Aren't you glad Juan picked the place and not me? We wold have had lattes and hors d'oeuvres instead of liquor and G-strings. Anyone get you a gin yet?

    Cat   Self   Giving  
  • [The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

  • At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

    Children   Parent   Age  
  • With the exception of Obama's belated lame-duck behavior, the US has always, in practice, supported Israel unquestionably.

    Israel   Practice   Ducks  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

  • We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite as Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, all of whom amply compensate a lifetime's rereadings, we are in the pragmatic dilemma of excluding something else each time we read or reread extensively.

    Past   Journey   Three  
    Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.

    "Chris Pine in Details: 'I think I'll be more like ... the George Clooney'" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. October 19, 2010.
  • Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.

    Dream   Moon   Sides  
    John Milton, Henry Stebbing (1836). “Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books”, p.25
  • When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That person may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen to the radio, but his or her mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C.

    Hate   Class   Names  
  • An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.

  • The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations with nature. Unless we arrest the depredations that have been inflicted so carelessly on our natural systems-which exist in an intricate set of balances-we face the prospect of ecological disaster.

    Men   Balance   Faces  
    Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.653, Best Books on
  • Oh, dear." She let her head fall back to the pillow. "There it went. I've fallen in love with you now." "Just now?" Chuckling, he came to a sitting position, resting his forearm on one bent knee. "Well, thank God for belated blessings." He ran a hand through his hair. "It's been coming on rather longer than that for me." "What?" She sat bolt upright. "What can you mean? Since when?" "From the first, Amelia. From the very first.

    Fall   Love You   Mean  
  • Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

    Paul Gauguin (2012). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.28, Courier Corporation
  • The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.

  • The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are that belated objectives of nearly all Psychotherapy

  • Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.

    Struggle   Writing   Kind  
  • I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated act of grace to be allowed to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim the sincerity of this conviction.

    Judging   Grace   Atheism  
    "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Chapter 5 - "The World War", 1925.
  • America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's philosophical objection to the Canadian health system, it is, broadly, fair: Unless you're a cabinet minister or a big time hockey player, you'll enjoy the same equality of crappiness and universal lack of access that everybody else does. But, even before it's up-and-running, Pelosi-Reid-Obamacare is an impenetrable thicket of contradictory boondoggles, shameless payoffs and arbitrary shakedowns.

  • What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.

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