I look like an old man, compared '', and he had picked up his photograph with the red Christmas bow still on it.

* " It may, perhaps, be embarrassing for a solitary man to walk across a wide quadrangle under a fire of glances from a collection of collegiate females ; but it is child's play compared, for example, with the long trek from the pavilion at Lord's to the far end of the pitch, with five wickets down and ninety needed to save the follow-on.

Even earlier, a kind of primitive haggis is referred to in Homer's Odyssey, in book 20, ( towards the end of the eighth century BC ) when Odysseus is compared to " a man before a great blazing fire turning swiftly this way and that a stomach full of fat and blood, very eager to have it roasted quickly.

By the time of the Los Angeles riots of 1992, Bush was a bit late in supporting enterprise zones, tenant ownership and welfare reform: Mort Zuckerman compared Bush's vision on racial issues to that of a man riding backwards in a railroad car.

The relationship between the party organ and the administrative organ is often compared to the relationship between the man who steers the boat and the man who rows the boat.

Daegling notes that in 1967, movie and television special effects were primitive compared to the more sophisticated effects in later decades, and allows that if the Patterson film depicts a man in a suit that " it is not unreasonable to suggest that it is better than some of the tackier monster outfits that got thrown together for television at that time.

Schopenhauer sees reason as weak and insignificant compared to Will ; in one metaphor, Schopenhauer compares the human intellect to a lame man who can see, but who rides on the shoulder of the blind giant of Will.

Dougan says that while Omar is a minor Sufi teacher compared to the giants – Rumi, Attar and Sana ’ i, for us he is a marvelous man because we can feel for him and understand his approach.

In East Timor, one of the two predominately Christian nations in southeast Asia ( the Philippines being the other ), for some, the roof of the house is reserved for gods and spirits of ancestors, the lower portion remains for the nature spirit and usually occupied by animals, and the cock is admired because of courage and perseverance, with the courage of a man compared with that of the cock, with the cockfight occurring regularly and “ many tais designs include the cock ”.

< p > If the stationary organism is a man and the traveling one is his twin, then the traveler returns home to find his twin brother much aged compared to himself.

The relationship between God's absolute Unity and Divine manifestations, may be compared to a man in a room-there is the man himself, and his presence and relationship to others in the room.

The mood in his poems show the side of the man that can be compared with other poets such as Robert Frost, one of many well-known poets expressing himself with dark poetic works.

Melanchthon wrote in 1520, " I would rather die than be separated from Luther ," whom he afterward compared to Elijah, and called " the man full of the Holy Ghost.

As a result, he claimed, living together in rationally organized communities like modern humans is a development with many negative aspects compared to the original state of man as an ape.

A human being is so small compared to a Garuda that a man can hide in the plumage of one without being noticed ( Kākātī Jātaka, J. 327 ).

Other commentators have also compared Gandalf to the Norse god Odin in his " Wanderer " guise — an old man with one eye, a long white beard, a wide brimmed hat, and a staff.

A couple is formed of two dancers referred to as the " man " and the " lady ", however, due to the much larger number of women dancing SCD compared to men, women often dance " as the man " ( normally the more experienced woman will dance as the man or, all else being equal, the taller woman will dance as the man as some figures are easier this way ).

Little man can be compared to the European counterparts-dwarfs, elves, gnomes, and leprechauns.

It was also unfavorably compared to the 1988 film Big, in which Tom Hanks also played a child in a grown man's body.

These films, often compared unfavorably by contemporary critics to Lang's earlier works, have since been reevaluated as being integral to the emergence and evolution of American genre cinema, film noir in particular.

While compared unfavorably to White Heat by critics, it was fairly successful at the box office, with $ 500, 000 going straight to Cagney Productions ' bankers to pay off their losses.

For business, ISDN's 64 kbit / s data rate compared unfavorably to 10 Mbit / s local area networks such as Ethernet.

A 1972 publication in the journal Pétrole Informations () compared shale-based oil production unfavorably with the coal liquefaction.

In 1932, she married Harmon " Ham " Nelson, who was scrutinized by the press ; his $ 100 a week earnings compared unfavorably with Davis's reported $ 1, 000 a week income.

The product had good 2D and 3D performance but produced poor 3D images with the result that it was derided in reviews, being compared unfavorably with the Voodoo1 and even being nicknamed the " Matrox Mystake ".

Assault on Precinct 13 received reasonable reviews ; some critics praised the dark swift feel of the film, while others compared it unfavorably to John Carpenter's original.

Geomancy's first mention in print was William Langland's Piers Plowman where it is unfavorably compared to the level of expertise a person needs for astronomy (" gemensye is gynful of speche ").

In Close Up she compared Hollywood unfavorably with Soviet filmmaking, arguing that the studio system had " lowered the standards " of cinema.

This soon expanded into plots for Gross ' entire 25 issue run, despite Gross initially being nervous that his writing efforts would be unfavorably compared to those of Gaiman and Rieber by the series ' fans.

Critics, though far from uniformly negative about Selleck's performance, generally compared it unfavorably to that of Jason Robards, Jr., who won awards in the 1960s for playing the character on the stage and in a movie version.

Despite its price, many compared the PCjr unfavorably to the IBM PC rather than to other home computers, as IBM gave it " far less overall capability ... to keep it from biting deeply into the costlier product's sales ".

It was unfavorably compared to Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, which was published that same year.

Reviewers compared it unfavorably to The Simpsons and South Park.

Benson's firm but noncommittal stance compared unfavorably to the statements of the New Orleans Hornets, the city's displaced NBA team.

" The Washington Post compared Zero Patience unfavorably to Hollywood's big-budget, big-star AIDS-themed film, Philadelphia, claiming that the latter's protagonist, Andrew Beckett, " looked sick, dealt with his illness and allowed the audience to sympathize ," unlike the " healthy hoofers " of the musical who, because they didn't look sick enough, " to deny some of the grim realities " of the disease.

Jackson Lee claimed in 2011 that health-care repeal would mean “ killing Americans .” In an interview, she compared US health care unfavorably with China ’ s, saying she met with a visitor from a Chinese delegation who said they believe everyone should have it.

Vladimir Nabokov, for instance, compared his dictionary with that of Vladimir Dahl unfavorably and, in his novel Ada or Ardor, even called it " moronic ".

In recent years, Kane has been compared unfavorably to contemporary media figures such as Rupert Murdoch

" After 1640 his austere, harsh, hard edged style was unfavorably compared to the sentimental religiosity of Murillo and Zurbarán's reputation declined.

Critics compared the show unfavorably to Seinfeld and Ellen, noting the similarities all three series had in depicting friends conversing about their lives.

As part of a series, Broadsides and Boarding Parties was unfavorably compared to the other games and was less popular.

Consequently, some conservative commentators compared Ruffo unfavorably with his elegant Italian predecessor Mattia Battistini, who was a master of bel canto and the possessor of a leaner, more silvery timbre than Ruffo's.