Compared with Zevon's ebullient inside track on this stuff — the erudite vein of macho fantasy — Elvis Costello was a piker.
He said that rum peddling was a piker's business and that his organization had developed a scientific system just like any other organization with goods to sell, such as the Standard Oil Company or the Uneeda Baking Company, for example.
She concludes: Adrienne Rich, whom I have always admired as poet and phenomenologist of anger, is a piker compared to some self-styled radical feminists, all too eager to dump the life of reason (along with the idea of authority) into the dustbin of "patriarchal history"..
When it comes to the quest for beauty in physics, even Einstein was a piker compared with the British theorist Paul Dirac, who once said "it is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment".
She concludes: Adrienne Rich, whom I have always admired as poet and phenomenologist of anger, is a piker compared to some self-styled radical feminists, all too eager to dump the life of reason (along with the idea of authority) into the dustbin of "patriarchal history"...
When Whitman joined the company, eBay was a piker attempting to challenge online mega-malls run by Amazon and Yahoo.
Pennzoil is a piker compared with Procter & Gamble, which has a small army of 225 employees stationed near Wal-Mart's headquarters.
Not that Smith was a piker at introducing songs herself.
But as stressed as he is by his parents -- and his own -- expectations about his future, Craig comes to realize that, in fact, he's a piker compared to his fellow patients.
