Sentence examples for unhappy comparison from inspiring English sources

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Hartington couldn't pretend that blacks were flourishing, but then "they are not dirtier or more ­uncomfortable-looking than Irish laborers" (an unhappy comparison so soon after the great famine, and from a man whose family owned huge estates in Ireland).

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And they may win, or Luongo will slide into more unhappy comparisons with James.

INVITING unhappy comparisons with Mahatma Gandhi and Mao Zedong, Benazir Bhutto, leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), was foiled in a plan to lead a "long march" on November 13th.

Clouds of Sils Maria is the second film in competition at Cannes this year to focus on an ageing female actor upset by unhappy comparisons with an up-and-comer, following David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, which screened last week to generally warmer reviews.

It's hard not to draw unhappy comparisons between Portland's markets, where fruit spills from boxes, artisanal sausage sits politely on wooden boards and vats of chèvre soften in the air, and the farmers' market in Las Cruces, N.M., the city I left a few months ago.

Unhappy comparisons are obviously made, as his successors have presided over black rule characterized by increasing corruption and the abandonment of high principle.

But the biggest and unhappiest comparison is with Todd Field's In the Bedroom, which is superficially similar, dealing with the death of a beloved son.

"This growing confidence [in switching], along with small sprouts of competition, means that we are now seeing people starting to vote with their feet when they're unhappy," said David Mann of comparison website uSwitch.com.

I understand that there have been polls that suggest that people are unhappy with the situation today in comparison to the situation before 1989.

Her study of 800 men and women between ages 30 and 89 found that people tend to be unhappy when they measure their happiness in comparison with others.

Murphy et al. [ 2] found that physically violent men show extremely high levels of emotional dependency in comparison with subjects in both happy and unhappy relationships and therefore concluded that emotionally dependent individuals are more likely to resort to violence than not emotionally dependent ones, also if in an unhappy relationship.

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