There are still reports of police and army brutality, but overall the state is incomparably more respectful of human rights than it was.
He said the sound from the McCartney concert, which attracted 60,000 fans to the central square outside the Winter Palace, part of the Hermitage, was "incomparably more powerful than that of any airplane," and that "something has to be done so there are no more of these types of shows".
The pattern has been for demagogues to take real abuses and exaggerate them, portraying, for example, the most venal wing of the Catholic Church as representative of all Catholicism — just as fundamentalist Wahabis today are caricatured as more representative of Islam than the incomparably more numerous moderate Muslims of Indonesia (who have elected a woman as president before Americans have).
In sharp contrast, genomes of microbes and viruses are incomparably more compact, with most of the genetic material assigned to distinct biological functions.
But success at the World Cup, a competition in which Spain had always been relegated to the unenviable role of underachiever, is incomparably more valuable in the eyes of soccer-obsessed Spaniards.
The sexism endured by the women of, say, Afghanistan is of course incomparably more severe and more limiting than the stereotypes that trammel the graduates of Harvard Business School.
If Representative Todd Akin's remarks about "legitimate rape" provoked an uproar, shouldn't it be incomparably more offensive that millions of human beings are still trafficked in the 21st century?
Their lives, their creations, their exhibitions, their string quartets, their loves: the whole array of their life was incomparably more important than the macabre theatre of their jailers.
While networks are very useful and fast tools to unravel some patterns and processes of genetic diversity, they are incomparably more powerful when coupled with analyses of phylogenetic forests.
The trouble was that those gentlemen had not, and I had, caught glimpses of an incomparably more poignant bliss.
