Pisanio also compares Imogen to a goddess to describe her composure under duress in Cymbeline.

Davidson further compares to early attestations of the Irish goddesses Badb ( Davidson points to the description of Badb from The Destruction of Da Choca's Hostel where Badb is wearing a dusky mantle, has a large mouth, is dark in color, and has gray hair falling over her shoulders, or, alternatively, " as a red figure on the edge of the ford, washing the chariot of a king doomed to die ") and The Morrígan.

Janice muses on the terrors of space, drinks in last memories of the Earth she will soon be leaving, and compares her situation to that of the pioneer women of the 19th-century American frontier.

In the TV show Weeds, Isabelle Hodes compares her mother Celia, whom she despises, to Voldemort.

For example, in her notebook she compares Sport to a " little old woman " for his continual worrying about his father.

Niobe is also mentioned in Sophocles's Antigone where, as Antigone is marched toward her death, she compares her own loneliness to that of Niobe.

In her essay " What Nature Allows the Jealous Laws Forbid " literary critic Mary Aswell Doll compares the love between the two male protagonists of Annie Proulx ' book Brokeback Mountain ( 1997 ) with the love Myrrha has for her father in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

First then does Ovid begin telling the story describing Myrrha, her father and their relationship, which Doll compares to the mating of Cupid and Psyche: here the lovemaking occurs in complete darkness and only the initiator ( Cupid ) knows the identity of the other as well.

Here he compares Florence with " Myrrha, wicked and ungodly, yearning for the embrace of her father, Cinyras "; a metaphor, Claire Honess interprets as referring to the way Florence tries to " seduce " Pope Clement V away from Henry VII.

In her epistle dedication to Sir Charles Cavendish, her brother in law, Cavendish compares writing poetry to spinning and describes poetry as mental spinning.

In The Poetresses Petition, the poet compares a negative reception to her books as their death.

In An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book, the poet compares her book to a child and compares the book / child and author / parent to birds.

Grandin compares her memory to full-length movies in her head that can be replayed at will, allowing her to notice small details.

" He compares her work with other novelists of the time and concludes that hers reaches a much higher quality.

In Henry VI, Part 3, the Duke of York compares Queen Margaret unfavorably to " Tygers of Hyrcania " ( I. iv. 622 ) for her inhumanity.

35, 38 ), who compares her to Sappho, as a model of wifely devotion and as the writer of poems that teach " girls to please one husband and husbands to please one wife .".

Seth Lerer, in his book Children ’ s Literature, finds that Charlotte represents female authorship and creativity, and compares her to other female characters in children ’ s literature such as Jo March in Little Women and Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden.

The game's database compares it to Sakura's transformation into MOMO, Wilhelm planned to use KOS-MOS ' control of the Anima through her emotional bond with chaos to start Zarathustra.

Although Cowley ’ s plays and poetry did not enjoy wide popularity after the nineteenth century, critic Melinda Finberg rates Cowley as “ one of the foremost playwrights of the late eighteenth century ” whose “ skill in writing fluid, sparkling dialogue and creating sprightly, memorable comic characters compares favourably with her better-known contemporaries, Goldsmith and Sheridan .” Cowley ’ s plays were produced frequently during her lifetime.

Jones compares the executions of Domitian to those under Emperor Claudius ( 41 – 55 ), noting that Claudius executed around 35 senators and 300 equestrians, and yet was still deified by the Senate and regarded as one of the good Emperors of history.

Often one compares against a scientific control or traditional treatment that acts as baseline.

Lindow compares Fenrir's role to his father Loki and Fenrir's brother Jörmungandr, in that they all spend time with the gods, are bound or cast out by them, return " at the end of the current mythic order to destroy them, only to be destroyed himself as a younger generation of gods, one of them his slayer, survives into the new world order.

At one point Macbeth even compares himself to Antony, saying " under Banquo / My Genius is rebuk'd, as it is said / Mark Antony's was by Caesar.

Biblical scholar Bruce M. Metzger notes that in one account of the Osirian cycle he dies on the 17th of the month of Athyr ( approximating to a month between October 28 and November 26 in modern calendars ), is revivified on the 19th and compares this to Christ rising on the " third day " but he thinks " resurrection " is a questionable description.

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.

In general, a quantum computer with qubits can be in an arbitrary superposition of up to different states simultaneously ( this compares to a normal computer that can only be in one of these states at any one time ).

At least one scholar, however, decries that out of seven principal black characters across the Star Trek series, only La Forge and Tuvok " really qualify as nerds, and neither of them compares with the extraordinary geekiness of the teenaged Wesley Crusher.

Solomon Kohan is later revealed as one of the extremely long-lived " Wise " ( like Enoch Root ), and compares a courtyard full of inventors ' workstations to " an operation I used to have in Jerusalem a long time ago ," denominating either facility as " a temple.

It is different from a metaphor, which compares two unlike things by saying that the one thing is the other thing, unlike the simile that uses word like or as ( also " if " and " than ", although these are not common ).

At the very end of the text he borrows an analogy from Arthur Schopenhauer, and compares the book to a ladder that must be thrown away after one has climbed it.

One of the characters in the novel compares More favourably to almost every other major historical figure: " He had one completely honest moment right at the end.

When a codeword is received or read, the device either compares its check value with one freshly calculated from the data block, or equivalently, performs a CRC on the whole codeword and compares the resulting check value with an expected residue constant.

If one compares explosions with different yields, the EMP at a fixed distance from a nuclear weapon would not increase at the same rate as the explosion yield, but at most only as the square root of the yield ( see the illustration to the right ).

" He also compares it to one's achievements in life, " Thus even the highest work of art, yet, the loftiest reputation, is nothing in comparison with the passionate kiss of a woman one loves.

A controlled experiment generally compares the results obtained from an experimental sample against a control sample, which is practically identical to the experimental sample except for the one aspect whose effect is being tested ( the independent variable ).

It compares with mutualism, in which both organisms benefit, and parasitism, when one benefits while the other is harmed.

Proponents of permaculture respond that this is true only if one compares data from between woodland forest and climax vegetation, but not when comparing farmland vegetation with woodland forest.

Anne Ross compares this image with one of a goddess found in Mavilly-Mandelot, France, portrayed with a similar pleated garment, holding two snakes in one hand, on an altar associated with aquatic cults.

Based on his results, one can calculate a value for G of 6. 754 × 10 < sup >− 11 </ sup > N-m < sup > 2 </ sup >/ kg < sup > 2 </ sup >, which compares favourably with the modern value of 6. 67428 × 10 < sup >− 11 </ sup > N-m < sup > 2 </ sup >/ kg < sup > 2 </ sup >.< ref >

If one compares the per capita income to the actual cost of living, the number of people living below the poverty line is considerably higher.

Suspending disbelief and focusing on the necessary supply of material to the Weyrs to sustain the dragons, and the populations ( a Weyr, exceeding two thousand persons, compares to some medieval cities ) leads one to conclude that a principal part of the available agricultural and industrial productions of the planet would be devoted to this quasi-war effort during the Pass, and a considerable fraction during the Interval.