More to the point, television viewers were submitted to ad after ad that likened women — negatively — to sofas, cars, and candy.
A primatologist wrote a celebrated book in the early nineteen-eighties that likened chimpanzee behavior — their shifting alliances, betrayals, bribes, and punishments — to Machiavellian politics.
Inside the newspaper, a photo of a pro-Israel marcher was outweighed by a larger picture of protesters, one waving a sign that likened Zionism to Nazism.
Starting with an opening sketch that likened NBC executives to "The Godfather -style hit men, almost every joke was a barb about the conflict with Jay Leno that led him to quit.
Mr. Bush, in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," dismissed Mr. McCain's vow as a transparent ploy that did not excuse him for running two television commercials that likened Mr. Bush's trustworthiness to President Clinton's.
For the metropolitan New York Pontiac dealers, the agency produced commercials that likened buying a Japanese car to wanting to watch the Christmas tree being lighted at "Mitsubishi Center".
As he explained in a BBC3 documentary that likened top vloggers' current fame levels to those of the Beatles and One Direction, "I make a living by filming my everyday life and uploading it to the internet".
For his efforts, some dubbed him "Neutron Jürgen" for General Electric chief executive Jack Welch, whom critics derided as "Neutron Jack"—a sobriquet that likened Welch's strategy of eliminating numerous jobs in the interest of saving his company to the way a neutron bomb destroys lives while leaving buildings intact.
Last Monday, the short-seller published a 135-page report that likened Olam to Enron, an American company that went bankrupt in 2001, saying the Singapore company was "likely to fail" and questioning the bookkeeping on its acquisition of a flour milling business in Nigeria, among other issues.
Analysts of the earliest poetry chose to devote particular attention to the ways in which poets depicted animals and other aspects of nature and often indulged in complex patterns of imagery that likened attributes of one animal to those of another.
Feelings are especially raw in Ann Arbor, where controversy erupted last week after Emory Douglas, the minister of culture for the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and 70s, displayed a slide at a required lecture for University of Michigan art students that likened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler.
