Sentence examples for begging comparison from inspiring English sources

A dead-serious Corvette, begging comparison with Europe's best.

By the time of the encore the crowd had swelled yet more, begging comparisons with the Rolling Stones or Dolly Parton's packed-out show earlier in the day.

But Lutsen doesn't beg comparison to other areas.

There are also elements that beg comparison to (and differentiation from) postwar abstraction.

All this begs comparison to that other 19th-century example of great talent stifled by opium, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

The new album begs comparison with that one, if only because it features so many of the same songs.

But it is a similarity to the Kabuki Theater tradition, and not just in the form of heavily crayoned eyebrows and brazenly slashed eyeliner, that begs comparison.

Whether it was the male dancers in particular, the music in general or the imagery, it seemed to beg comparison with Michael Clark, inevitably coming off a poor second.

The president's lag behind the growing national consensus for fairness was starting to beg comparison to Woodrow Wilson's embarrassingly slow embrace of women's suffrage.

The artworks either celebrate or beg comparison with Olmsted's complex and subtle 19th-century vision; in a few cases they direct a contemporary spotlight on his left-to-crumble ideas.

In scenes which inevitably beg comparison with W1A, the long-running gag on Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Radio 5 Live film review show, referring to Apple iPhones as a "fruit-related device", has come under the scrutiny of the BBC Trust.