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.

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.

He compares this to the work of the historian Thucydides, who found it difficult recording speeches verbatim but instead had the speakers say what he felt was appropriate for them to say on the occasion while adhering as much as possible to the general sense.

Discussions of frictional unemployment focus on voluntary decisions to work based on each individuals ' valuation of their own work and how that compares to current wage rates plus the time and effort required to find a job.

Published in 1911, Kandinsky's book compares the spiritual life of humanity to a pyramid — the artist has a mission to lead others to the pinnacle with his work.

Lucretius compares his work in this poem to that of a doctor healing a child: just as the doctor may put honey on the rim of a cup containing bitter wormwood ( most likely Absinth Wormwood ) believed to have healing properties, the patient is " tricked " into accepting something beneficial but difficult to swallow, " but not deceived " by the doctor.

In his work Über die Berechtigung der Darwin ' schen Theorie ( On the justification of the Darwinian theory ) he compares creationism and evolutionary theory, concluding that many biological facts can be seamlessly accommodated within evolutionary theory, but remain puzzling if considered the result of acts of creation.

" 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.

Cliff Eisen, who wrote a doctoral dissertation on Leopold Mozart's symphonies, finds in a Symphony in G major examples of his " sensitivity to orchestral colour " and a work that " compares favourably with those of virtually any of Mozart ’ s immediate contemporaries.

Joshi compares an original script version of " Walking Distance " to a short story version of the same work, then to the finalized script.

Most of this work is contained in his Torah commentary, where he analyses and compares the shorashim ( three-letter root forms ) of a large number of Hebrew words and develops an etymological system of the Hebrew language.

A SAE paper from 2003 deals with a high-speed, small-displacement sleeve-valve engine, calculated, but not experimentally shown, to have a higher SFC than the poppet-valve alternative, a year-2009 work compares two different side-opening intake strategies for sleeve-valve engines.

Dr. Pryor compares Bart's proposed work among ordinary children to Jane Goodall's study of chimpanzees.

The same work also compares Transmeta's patented technology with prior art published and in some cases patented by IBM, and suggests that some claims might not stand detailed scrutiny.

* This work compares eight versions of the Śivasahasranāmāstotra.

She thinks a full appreciation of the work is only possible within the context of the remaining novels of The Baroque Cycle, and compares the novel to works by Dorothy Dunnett, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, calling it " history-of-science fiction ".

He describes it as " a song that compares the apartheid struggle to the motion of an oncoming train " and goes on to explain that " the singing made the work lighter ".

Another work of Accolti's, a " Dialogue " ( 1461 – 63 ), was published at Parma in 1689 ; in this work the author compares the achievements of the moderns to the ancients, in order to prove that the former are in no respect inferior to the latter.

This compares to the most recent census where around 12 % of the population work from home and the average distance travelled to work is now 14. 24 km.

His entry in the Dictionary of National Biography ( volume for 1931 – 40, published 1949 ) compares his work to that of Frank Holl because of its solemnity.

He continues with the fourth form also containing elements of the ideal template / archetype which in this way remains an ever-present and invisible ideal version with which the craftsman compares his work.

: This book ... is written for people who have no training in mathematics and who may not have actively thought about mathematics since high school, or even during it, but who may wish to experience an act of mathematical imagining and to consider how such an experience compares with the imaginative work involved in reading and understanding a phrase in a poem.

Lamsa's work compares translations of the Peshitta with popular English translations based on the Greek New Testament, particularly the King James Version.

Rhode Island's reimburseable rate of $.07 per mile for use of personally-owned cars compares favorably with other states' rates.

My double was made with standard-weight revolver barrels ( before cutting to revolver length ), and although it compares well in other respects, it's considerably heavier than the Deerstalker, which only scales about 6-1/2 pounds.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

In 1960, David D. Thomas published Basic Vocabulary In some Mon-Khmer Languages ( AL 2, No. 3, pp. 7 - 11 ), which compares 8 Mon-Khmer languages with the I-E language data on which Swadesh based the revised retention rate ( Af ) in place of original ( Af ), and his revised 100 word basic glottochronological list in Towards Greater Accuracy ( IJAL 21::

This latter figure compares with latex foam rubber at an average of 5.5 lb. / cu. ft. in commercial grades.

The low number of abnormalities compares favourably with the health condition of a Majungasaurus population of which it in 2007 was established that 19 % of individuals showed bone pathologies.

SAR performance limits mean that the fastest IP router ATM interfaces are STM16-STM64 which actually compares, while POS can operate at OC-192 ( STM64 ) with higher speeds expected in the future.

That is especially truth when considering that Lula compares himself with Getúlio Vargas, Juscelino Kubitscheck and João Goulart, presidents seen as statist nationalistics.

This article compares the properties of brains across the entire range of animal species, with the greatest attention to vertebrates.

In each step, the algorithm compares the input key value with the key value of the middle element of the array.

The metaphor compares the promise of the global socialist movement before May 1968 ( the grin ) with its actual presence in the world after May 1968 ( the cat ).

Analogously, the producer compares marginal revenue ( identical to price for the perfect competitor ) against the marginal cost of a good, with marginal profit the difference.

President Obiang's rule, during which schools were permitted to reopen and primary education expanded, and public utilities and roads restored, compares favorably with Macías ' tyranny and terror.

Compared to ethnography, the study of single groups through direct contact with the culture, ethnology takes the research that ethnographers have compiled and then compares and contrasts different cultures.

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.

This code defines a new word ( again, word is the term used for a subroutine ) called using the following commands: duplicates the number on the stack ; places a 6 on top of the stack ; compares the top two numbers on the stack ( 6 and the ed input ), and replaces them with a true-or-false value ; takes a true-or-false value and chooses to execute commands immediately after it or to skip to the ; discards the value on the stack ; and ends the conditional.

Tolkien Encyclopedia compares Tolkien's Father Christmas with L. Frank Baum's Santa Claus, as he appears in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus:

Hayek points out that much of science involves the explanation of complex multivariable and nonlinear phenomena, and the social science of economics and undesigned order compares favourably with such complex sciences as Darwinian biology.

Ibn Barun in the 12th century compares the Hebrew language with Arabic in the Islamic grammatical tradition.

There were 27. 5 per cent who stated that they had no religion ( which compares with 15. 5 per cent in the UK overall ).

The research psychologist Gary Marcus's book Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind compares evolutionary kluges with engineering ones like manifold vacuum-powered windshield wipers – when you accelerated or drove uphill, " Your wipers slowed to a crawl, or even stopped working altogether.

He often compares Perl to a natural language and explains his decisions in Perl's design with linguistic rationale.

This compares with about 32 per square kilometre ( 85 per square mile ) for the United States.

This compares very favourably with other sub-Saharan African countries and is largely due to sustained progress in economic conditions ; between 1977 and 2008, growth averaged 4. 6 % compared with a 2. 9 % average in sub-Saharan Africa.