Sentence examples for cruel comparison from inspiring English sources

Having opened to disappointing box office and derisory reviews in the US (a pattern quite possibly destined to be repeated here in the UK), this first feature from Oscar-winning cinematographer-turned-director Wally Pfister has drawn cruel comparison to John Carter, another big budget sci-fi fantasy that sent critics and audiences running for the hills.

This year's commissions are both entertaining and slight, and full of art that invites cruel comparisons with all those intelligent plays and sidesplitting comics with which it will compete.

Almost 5,000 people commented beneath the article on the paper's website and many more did so on Twitter, with the majority of the comments sniggering at Brick's Zoolander-esque self-descriptions and the seven photos of her that the Mail published, all but begging for cruel comparisons to be made.

To cynical eyes, such cruel comparisons might have seemed all the more persuasive as the jubilee unfolded without evident reference to a figure who, in life and in death, once molded Britons' perceptions of the royal family — Diana, Princess of Wales, barely glimpsed in the officially approved commemorative footage, airbrushed out of the national memory.

At one point Mr. Collins did a tambourine solo — knocking it against his head, his elbow, his knee — that he had done in younger, leaner days, with old video to make the comparison crueler.

Or, if you're feeling particularly cruel, a Brick Tamland comparison.

Here, Kushner is all novelist, portraying the rich with a cruel rapture that bears comparison with Alan Hollinghurst's.

These cruel measures pale in comparison to similar situations abroad, however.

To Iain D. Couzin, such a comparison is a cruel insult — to the ants.

The comparison between the cruel slaughter of the old mare and the plan to murder Alyona Ivanovna delineates the brutality of Raskolnikov's crime, which is often downplayed by his habitual dehumanizing referral to the old woman as simply a "louse".

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.