Looked at from a distance, the Swedish metal band Opeth puts the very soft beside the very hard.
"The Artist" is a fine film, but it seems very small beside the real thing.
On this very spot, beside this very road, next to this very wall, I took cover from bullets 36 years ago.
And before long, the novel veers into territory so fantastical that character development seems very much beside the point.
I walked in the very rear beside Dave Wilson, a sergeant, and when the column flowed down a gentle slope and up the other side, our view was incredible.
With the tumult of Vietnam and the battle for civil rights grabbing the headlines, news about business seemed very much beside the point.
Soft or bright, Michelle knows that nothing suits her better... at the risk of other women's seeming very bland beside her".
But then I'm not living on very little beside a river that could rise up and ruin my life with no notice.
PSB synth jockey Chris Lowe is hidden at the very back beside some sound guys, identifiable only by a pair of fat red headphones and a baseball cap.
The Emperor also believed his fictitious beloved was the mother of his firstborn son, his long-awaited firstborn son, conceived because of the blessing of a saint, that very saint beside whose hilltop hovel this victory city had been built.
