Sentence examples for temptation to compare from inspiring English sources

The titanic novelists of the current literary moment are Elena Ferrante and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and the temptation to compare them is just as irresistible.

Even if you're having the time of your life, the temptation to compare yourself with people from back home is still present.

In one piece collected in "Reading Conrad," Miller notes that the temptation to compare a work of literature with its "background 'facts' " is "almost irresistible," but he insists that the details uncovered by Norman Sherry — about the Jeddah inquiry, for instance — cannot serve as a "point of origin" from which to judge "Lord Jim".

It extends for the same length as its illustrious neighbour, so the temptation to compare them is very great.

"While we will resist the temptation to compare it to the U.S. Hockey team declaring a similar victory despite only winning a preliminary round game [over Winter Olympics' host, Canada, Sunday], we would just say that both may be overconfident".

There's a temptation to compare the clashes to England's miners' strikes, but the reality's very different.

The temptation is to compare Prohibition to whatever new movement seems silly or futile.

When a line is drawn so surely between the two halves of a program, the temptation is to compare them.

While the temptation is to compare Edwards to Burress, the more realistic comparison for Edwards is with Santonio Holmes, who signed a 5-year, $50 million contract.

As Abhishek Purohit points out on Cricinfo , the temptation is to compare the women's success to that of Ranatunga's team, but it is too early to predict for sure.

One obvious pitfall in shifting from region to region is the temptation to immediately compare one with another.