Latter-day

He thinks of himself as a latter-day knight errant, out on a quest fighting dragons. It’s not very practical, but it is romantic.

Enquirer: Sir, I understand you are a member of the Church called Latter-Day Saints. Why is the Church called by that name? / Saint: The term Saint is as old as Adam, and has been in use in all ages and dispensations as a sacred name applied to the people of God by inspiration, but more especially applied by the sacred writers to the people of God in the last days. […] [W]e consider that the people of God should be distinguished by no other name but that of Saints, the term Latter-Day being appended as merely expressive of the age or dispensation in which we live.

As before mentioned, the pottery makers were comparatively late arrivals—it is conjectured these crossed in canoes from the continent in the Neolithic Age. These latter-day visitors were followed by the invaders of the Bronze Age, and all found their way, in due time, to the Wookey Hole (or holes), for many bronze implements and ornaments were found.

On the other hand, the self-cleaning smokebox belongs to the latter-day period of the L.M.S.R., when the visiting U.S.A. 2-8-0s of the war had awakened an interest in such things.

A trait of latter-day steam power on Canadian Pacific was the recessed headlight, illustrated on the engine of Extra 2380 East running between Swift Current and Moose Jaw, Sask., in December 1956.

The face which emerged was not reassuring. […] He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

Robert Rossen's short career included two outstanding Films Noirs: Body and Soul (1947) and the latter-day The Hustler (1961).

[Bruce] Gilden may be shoving these broken faces in our faces to confront us with what we usually choose to look away from. But his style seems to work against any intention to humanise his subjects. First and foremost, I feel uncomfortable as a viewer – not because of the poverty or abuse etched on to the landscapes of these faces, but because their perceived ugliness is paraded as a kind of latter-day freak show.