"immediate comparison" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a comparison that is made between two things or ideas that are next to each other, rather than being separated by other elements. Example: In the sentence "John is taller than his brother," the immediate comparison is between John and his brother, rather than between John and another person.
The most immediate comparison was with Ligeti's "Lux Aeterna" (1966).
He was making like Superman, or to use a more immediate comparison, Mary Poppins.
So when you file your tax return, the agency doesn't necessarily have your income information from your employer for immediate comparison.
"The more different their activity from your own, the better," said Ms. Domscheit-Berg, "because that makes an immediate comparison harder".
Guy Pearce has an added strike against him: he came of age on Neighbours, thereby risking immediate comparison with the musical careers of Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan (and, ahem, Stefan Dennis).
Months ago, I celebrated the rerelease of John Schlesinger's fervidly epic 1967 version; now, Thomas Vinterberg's take on Far from the Madding Crowd (Fox, 12) doesn't quite weather the immediate comparison.
Video of Mr. Cain's appearance on Monday before editors and reporters at The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel went viral almost immediately after it was posted online, and drew immediate comparisons to Rick Perry's recent stumble in a debate when he froze in discussing which federal agencies he would eliminate.
The immediate comparisons are these: Wragge is not an icon; Wolf was.
When Rubio's campaign launched last April, he drew immediate comparisons to another young orator: Barack Obama.
The immediate comparisons were with William Faulkner, the unavoidable genius of Southern writing.
Murphy's last-gasp victory brought immediate comparisons with the classic 1985 Embassy final, in which Dennis Taylor beat Steve Davis with the final black of the final frame.
