Sentences with phrase «unflattering comparisons»
"Unflattering comparisons" means drawing negative or unfavorable comparisons between two or more things or people. It involves pointing out the weaknesses or shortcomings of one thing by highlighting the superior qualities of another. Full definition
Battlefront II also puts a time limit on how often you're able to earn currency in some modes, earning unflattering comparisons with free - to - play mobile games.
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speech in Goodfellas and another reminiscent of Pacino's baptismal bloodletting in The Godfather — that are too specific in their homage, and serve only to summon unflattering comparisons.
Its three - night debut in December 2010 brought unflattering comparisons to Downton Abbey, a fate also likely to greet the imminent series two thanks to Downton's booming national - treasure status.
Having won the competition in 2013 (and in 1998, with Real Madrid) his legacy is already safe, and unlike his successors Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti, he won't have to face up to unflattering comparisons with Bayern's treble - winning campaign of five years ago that had been orchestrated by... Heynckes himself.
Mr Alexander's shock of red hair has already led to unflattering comparisons between the Treasury Chief Secretary and «Beaker», the hapless ginger - haired character from The Muppet Show.
Unflattering comparisons have been drawn all season between United and their rivals, City and Liverpool.
You also have the problem that other actors might have attempted to do the same thing before which can lead to unflattering comparisons.
On the other: pitch - black comedy, atheistic bafflement, an unflattering comparison of mankind to reptiles, a self - righteous cackle, camp and sleaze.
It's not at all an unflattering comparison; I'd add only that «Disobedience,» with its gray, muted palette, also reminded me at times of «Beyond the Hills,» the grim 2012 Romanian drama about inconvenient lesbian desires threatening the sanctity and order of an Orthodox convent.
Even when the movie seems to be on a straight line running towards an obvious climax, Baumbach hilariously twists convention just enough at the last moment to avoid any unflattering comparisons.
The thought doesn't linger, though, and within a few rotations of those big, spindly wheels, any unflattering comparisons with leggy German workhorses couldn't be further from my mind.
It's not an unflattering comparison, of course, given that these two titles regularly teeter on the edge of conversation when one contemplates their favorite games of all time.