"They don't look minor league at all," Wilpon was saying.
Their image problems look minor compared with General Powell's.
But it's not just Picasso who makes these modernist Brits look minor.
Massine remained a sensationally successful choreographer through the '30s; only in the '40s did his latest ballets start to look minor beside those of Balanchine and Frederick Ashton.
Indications are that the Rohingya face a triple threat from starvation, violence and disease that will result in a devastating but preventable humanitarian crisis; a calamity of such proportions that it will make their previous travails look minor by comparison.
These dancers, who look minor compared to the high caliber of technique and style we are used to seeing in New York, are peculiarly alert: they draw us into their world.
If there are states where the number of provisional ballots cast exceeds the margin of victory, he predicts, "there will probably be horrendous fights, and litigation between the lawyers that will make the fights over hanging chads look minor by comparison".
It's also only a matter of time until one of the big-data brokerages fed by the advertising ecosystem has its own privacy Valdez and leaks toxic, immortal, compromising information all over the web at unimaginable scale, making the Ashley Madison dump and the Office of Personnel Management breach look minor by comparison.
Her struggles in Spain suddenly started to look minor.
Exactly zero! Smith, an insider, a Goldman veteran, makes Abacus and the Fabulous Fab look minor.
This only underscores the downside of letting executives off scot-free — it makes major failings look minor.
