Word: comparison
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Russians under 50 knew enough about the world outside Russia to see the wild nonsense of Stalin's comparison. Stalin, who is 66 and had a political education before the night closed on Russia 29 years ago, knew that no Soviet citizen would contradict...
...clarity of the Potsdam decisions," Dr. Renner said, "our national wealth and resources appear to be seriously threatened. . . . I assume that the occupying powers will not make difficulties for our press when things are discussed openly. . . . I consider most things that fill our daily papers irrelevant and unimportant in comparison...
...solidly meshed combinations of keys, wheels, metallic leaves and tubular women sell well to people who like to take their machine-age art neat. Mostly he confines himself to blacks, greys, and eye-stopping poster reds and yellows. Says he: "Nowadays a work of art must bear comparison with any manufactured object. The artistic picture is false and out of date...
...voted Socialist last year. They voted for a bearable life, and for the prospect of a good life. They have not got either and will not get anything better for a long time. Instead, they are adjusting themselves to a grey world of poverty-and to genteel inferiority in comparison with the powerful, prosperous...
...comparison was obvious and presumably intended. Just as Bunyan's "Christian" wound up in the City of God, so Hogarth's "Tom Rakewell" awoke from the happy madness of Drury Lane's Rose Tavern to the chains of the miserably insane in Bedlam. The year he died (1763), Hogarth added a final bitter detail to this engraving: a ha'penny stuck against the wall to indicate that Britannia was also an inmate...