In an even more impressive comparison, the Grammy show eclipsed the usual awards-show leader, the Oscars.
However, Cragg was skeptical about the line "I need you more than dope", feeling it to be a less impressive comparison.
While those numbers seem impressive, the comparisons to venture capital are not entirely apt.
It also involves recognition of his achievements — accomplishments that seem all the more impressive in comparison to current conditions.
But an intermediate system need only be able to make a more advanced system, and perhaps products that are impressive in comparison with today's products.
The result may not meet Mr. Stein's utopian expectations -- you can still find the occasional patch of graffiti and remnant of a drug deal -- but it's impressive by comparison with other efforts to house the working classes.
Taiwan's November shipments, for example, look impressive in comparison with a year earlier (up by more than a fifth), but they have shrunk a little since the spring.
That figure, though impressive in comparison with the anemic growth of the United States, Europe and Japan, was a sharp slowdown from previous quarters and came against analysts' expectations of an increase of 8.4 percent.
With Chelsea 15th in the Premier League, Porto's place on top of the Primeira Liga may look impressive by comparison, but it hasn't been plain sailing for Julen Lopetegui's men either, despite their recent derby win over Benfica.
We're aware, though, that he is using CGI - something which makes the biblical epics of yesteryear made by the likes of Cecil B. DeMille and Joseph L. Mankiewicz without the aid of digital trickery seem all the more impressive by comparison.
Net profit at $25 million, though down from $35 million a year earlier, is impressive in comparison with the $50 million that Ingram Micro, the industry leader, garnered from sales of $25 billion, eight times those of Synnex.
