"Why else, then, did you flee in horror from his public proposal, if not your belated realization of his hand in your late husband's death?"

That belated realization did not solve his problems in dealing with the white wizards-and the rebel lords.

He glanced at me, and I saw his mouth twist, as he had his own moment of belated realization.

Gates looks back with some amusement at his belated realization that access to technological information might not be the answer to the world's most serious problems.

The doctor's bleariness when he opened the door confirmed Rafael's belated realization that he should have quit after the first attempt.

It wasn't an accusation so much as a belated realization, an understanding of how Spock had managed to send him to a place he'd never been.

A belated realization of what I had done robbed me of my remaining breath.

The clothes also reflect a belated realization that the industrial process can actually open his mind to new ideas.

He did not bother applying for a patent until he came to the belated realization that he could potentially profit from his invention.

With that belated realization, he slowed his flight-if crawling at roughly ten feet per hour could be called "flight."