Earnest in tone in comparison to its self-consciously hip and ironic predecessors, Dead Man was thematically expansive and of an often violent and progressively more surreal character.

In comparison, today's American daily tabloids are generally much less overheated and less oriented towards scandal and sensationalism than their predecessors, or their British counterparts, reduced to sections of only one-three pages as Internet sources and magazines such as US Weekly have taken up the mantle of disseminating most gossip.

The Blackfriars was small in comparison to the earlier theatres and roofed rather than open to the sky ; it resembled a modern theatre in ways that its predecessors did not.

This U-shaped plan of the house with the terraces is a device that again recalls Maisons, where Mansart intended " to indicate that his château was conceived in a noble tradition of French design while at the same time emphasizing its modernity in comparison to predecessors.

The sensor is a 1. 3 crop of standard 35 mm film, which gives the M8 an enlarged perspective in comparison to its predecessors.

However, the subsequent album Back to the Egg was not favourably received by critics and although it went platinum in the United States, sales were disappointing in comparison to its immediate predecessors.

Although not a great sovereign like his predecessors, Bahadur Shah may be called, at least in comparison with his successors, a fairly successful one.

Tiglath-Pileser left no record explaining to modern historians which kind of method he was using, nor that he was switching from the method used by his predecessors ; all of this is determined by a careful comparison of the relevant texts by Assyriologists, the same as Thiele did for the regnal data of Judah and Israel.

He was a much different kind of Abbot in comparison to his predecessors — having entered the monastery in 1861, and having ruled the abbey in a much more relaxed fashion.

In comparison to its predecessors, Simon's ability to jump has also been expanded on.

Paul Maier states that a comparison of Eusebius ' reference with the 10th century Arabic version of the Testimonium due to Agapius of Hierapolis indicates that the Christian interpolation present in the Testimonium must have come early, before Eseubuis.

With Prong's Tommy Victor and Killing Joke's Paul Raven, the album featured an even heavier thrash metal sound drawing comparison to Slayer.

A. C. Benson once observed of Arnold that, " A man who could burst into tears at his own dinner-table on hearing a comparison made between St. Paul and St. John to the detriment of the latter, and beg that the subject might never be mentioned again in his presence, could never have been an easy companion ".

Diverse approaches have been used to estimate the chronology of Jesus, ranging from the comparison of the accounts in the Christian gospels with Roman and Jewish sources regarding facts such as the marriage of Herodias and separately the Jerusalem Temple, to correlation with the well established chronology of Paul of Tarsus, to astronomical analysis based on an approach first suggested by Isaac Newton.

While the Right has dominated Federally since the 1950s, the gradual shift of the paradigm of economic policy within Australia towards the Right, particularly since the 1970s, has led to the situation where past leaders of the Right, such as Ben Chifley, would now be considered in the Socialist Left ; especially in comparison to more recent Right leaders such as Paul Keating, Kim Beazley and Kevin Rudd.

In a 2006 episode of The Daily Show, comedian John Oliver suggested that Pope Benedict XVI is the George Lazenby of the papacy, in comparison to " John Paul II's Sean Connery ".

In the book Masters of the Baize, a detailed comparison and ranking of snooker pros, authors Luke Williams and Paul Gadsby rated Davis as the third greatest snooker player of all time behind Joe Davis and Stephen Hendry.

It depends on a comparison between the books of the New Testament which cannot be made here, but see Paul of Tarsus, and the claims of Ultradispensationalists such as E. W. Bullinger who view the distinction abhorred by the Ebionites as positive and essential doctrine.

As a means of comparison, the French existentialist philosopher and political activist Jean Paul Sartre ( d. 1980 ), is quoted as beginning his essay entitled The Republic of Silence in a provocative manner, by saying that, " We were never more free than under the German occupation.

* Keeper Finders, by Paul Boutin, Slate, December 31, 2004 — A comparison of Google, Ask Jeeves, HotBot, MSN and Copernic desktop search tools.

His rendition of the song, especially in comparison to those made famous by Paul Robeson, William Warfield ( in the 1951 film version ), Bruce Hubbard ( on the 1988 3-disc EMI album ), and Michel Bell ( in the Harold Prince revival of the show ), is somewhat exaggeratedly melodramatic in the manner of early twentieth-century acting, and Bledsoe rolls all of his " r "' s, as a baritone might when singing his solos in an oratorio.

This was discovered by Roland Madden and Paul Julian ( again the comparison with ENSO is instructive, since their local effects on Peruvian fisheries were discovered long before the global structure of the pattern was recognized ).

Red Savina peppers were reported to a score up to 577, 000 on the Scoville scale, but this oft-quoted figure was never verified ; a comparison experiment carried out by a group of researchers including Regents Professor Paul W. Bosland at the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University in 2005 revealed an average heat level of 248, 556 SHUs for Red Savina habaneros.

Orson Welles in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich said of Howard Hawks in comparison to John Ford " Hawks is great prose ; Ford is poetry ".

John McCarty of Cinefantastique stated that the house featured in the film made the Bates motel " look positively pleasant by comparison ".

" and 3 John, in comparison, are written by the mysterious " elder " or " Presbyter ".

Similar comments were made even in Constantinople, where John Kyriotes Geometres penned a poem offering a punning comparison between the Bulgarian Emperor and a comet which appeared in 989.

A more literal reading of Tolkien's text and comparison to historical instead of living factual persons ( notably John D. Rockefeller or the Rothschild family ) would result in a much higher estimate, as much as $ 870 billion, according to the article.

In the Gospel of John 3: 14 – 15, Jesus makes direct comparison between the raising up of the Son of Man and the act of Moses in raising up the serpent as a sign, using it as a symbol associated with salvation: " As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life ".

He was known by the nickname " Kannuksen Kennedy " (" The Kennedy of Kannus ", Kannus being his hometown ) due to his streamlined and well coiffed habitus, a comparison with United States President John F. Kennedy.

However, countries have applied neoliberal policies at varying levels of intensity ; for example, the OECD ( Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ) has calculated that only 6 % of Swedish workers are beset with wages it considers low, and that Swedish wages are overall lower due to their lack of neoliberal policies John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer ( 2006 ) of the CEPR have analyzed the effects of intensive Anglo-American neoliberal policies in comparison to continental European neoliberalism, concluding " The U. S. economic and social model is associated with substantial levels of social exclusion, including high levels of income inequality, high relative and absolute poverty rates, poor and unequal educational outcomes, poor health outcomes, and high rates of crime and incarceration.

* One's " John Henry "-formal signature referred to in ironic comparison to John Hancock's famously florid and consequential signature

The New Testament parables are thought by scholars such as John P. Meier to have been inspired by mashalim, a form of Hebrew comparison.

* John F. Kennedy: After Hammarskjöld's death, U. S. President John F. Kennedy regretted that he opposed the UN policy in the Congo and said: “ I realise now that in comparison to him, I am a small man.

When John came to Constantinople, he edited the Nomocanon, an abridgment of his former work, with the addition of a comparison of the imperial rescripts and civil laws ( especially the Novels of Justinian ) under each head.

This evidence has helped to strengthen the view of some scholars, such as A. E. Vacalopoulos, who see these references, combined with a reevaluation of Byzantium's classical past, to be the genesis of Greek nationalismWith the loss of Constantinople, this comparison played on the idea of " hellenes surrounded by barbarians ; Choniates equated the Seljuk sultan killed by Theodore I with Xerxes, and patriarch Germanos II recalled the victory of John III Vatazes as another battle of Marathon or Salamis. In much the same way, Theodore II Laskaris compared his father's victories to those of Alexander the Great and proceeded to extol the martial values of contemporary “ Hellenes ”.

Horror punk is generally apolitical in comparison to other punk rock subgenres, although some songs do refer to political events ( e. g. the Misfits ' " Bullet ", which discusses the assassination of John F. Kennedy ), and some artists like Jack Grisham ( on the left ) and Michale Graves ( on the right ) have espoused their own political views.

Its ecclesiastical parish, centred on St John the Baptist's Church, was tiny in comparison to neighbouring Worth and Ifield.

Critics have argued that the crux of Bush's campaign was the suggestion that John Kerry would be soft on terrorism in comparison to George Bush, and to present Bush as a " war President ".

For the generation of national leaders coming of age in the 1820s and 1830s – men like Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun – " the founders " represented a heroic but anonymous abstraction whose long shadow fell across all followers and whose legendary accomplishments defied comparison.

Michael Sells, John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature at the University of Chicago, argued that " by obscuring the existence of pre-Christian and other old, non-Christian communities in Europe as well as the reason for their disappearance in other areas of Europe, Bat Ye ’ or constructs an invidious comparison between the allegedly humane Europe of Christian and Enlightenment values and the ever present persecution within Islam.

By 1908, for example, when John N. Pharr's son Henry Newton Pharr ( eponym of Pharr, Texas ) sought the Louisiana governorship as a Republican, he gained just 11. 1 percent, of a much reduced number of voters in comparison with his father's campaign against Foster in 1896.