No writer is allowed to describe Palermo without comparing it to SoHo in Manhattan or deploying the adjective "trendy".
It is difficult to look at Prouvost without comparing her to Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, who just does it better.
Ginsberg said reporting this number without comparing it with what similar companies spent on lobbying was unfair.
So, the estimated costs were taken out of context — without comparing what we're already paying.
We go, look about us, walk up to a flower and pick it, without comparing it to anything.
It's impossible, though, to read the Verneys' story without comparing it to that other saga of everyday life in 17th-century England, the diary of Samuel Pepys.
So if you've recently started your year abroad, remember to take it as it comes – appreciate the experience you're having, without comparing it everyone else's.
Anyone who has been to a symphony concert knows that no conductor is overpaid, even without comparing them to pop stars and professional athletes.
Perhaps we need the time to elapse, the virtue of distance, to appreciate the second series or album without comparing unduly to former glories.
If you look at the stock market without comparing it with a Random Walk, it looks like it has patterns in it.
