Sentence examples for frivolous comparison from inspiring English sources
This is not a frivolous comparison, given Tarantino's remark that he's out to depict "the Auschwitzian aspects of the slave trade in America".
All football tournaments should be held in Italy, where calcio is consumed with a passion that makes religion seem almost frivolous by comparison.
He enjoys traditional Icelandic cuisine — "The usual?" a takeout server asks him; "Yes, I'll have a sheep's head" is the reply — and carries himself with a weary dignity that makes most of Ingmar Bergman's characters seem frivolous by comparison.
The abbey church, severe but powerful, could only be in Normandy it makes Vzelay look frivolous by comparison.
How similar this is to Hitler's cleansing of the Jews in that era!"Long after positing his "Law", Mr Godwin wrote that his goal in doing so was to discourage frivolous and glib comparisons to the unique circumstance of that evil regime not to let it serve as a facile device for summarily rejecting substantive analogies or comparisons to the Nazis.
Indeed, Siegel catalogs the reasons that the "differences between 'Beat' and 'Tea Party' are so immense as to make comparisons seem frivolous," but then plunges blithely into making just those comparisons.
Of course, on the surface the differences between "Beat" and "Tea Party" are so immense as to make comparisons seem frivolous.
But, of course, Prohibition didn't seem frivolous at the time — if the comparison to abolitionism seems bizarre today, that should tell us something about how difficult it is to make accurate historical judgments when we are engulfed in debate.
That might sound frivolous.
He called the lawsuits "frivolous — completely, totally frivolous".
