“A detailed comparison between the two apparently similar works will turn up a number of surprising differences.”
“I wouldn't suggest there was any comparison between the two artists.”
“The comparison between the two musical styles is significantly stark.”
comparative
(grammar) A construction showing a relativequality, in English usually formed by adding more or appending -er. For example, the comparative of green is greener; of evil, more evil.
“Likewise, contemporary comparatist discussions of cultural alterity may blur rather than sharpen historical distinctions and our sense of the otherness of the past.”
“One could say that his reach exceeded his grasp, for Rothko was not a professional philosopher or historian of art, nor indeed a professional cultural comparatist.”
“Few topics are more prone to the comparatist touch that the regimes of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.”
“And to add insult to injury, there is nothing to prevent producers who have a performance envelope from topping up the financing of their projects by submitting them for the comparatives.”
“In a sell note Philip Dorgan at Panmure Gordon said: Sales in the second quarter are worse than the first and, while comparatives ease in the second half, we are not confident.”
“Tougher comparatives and signs of slackening consumer confidence could well weigh on the performance, however, with both UBS and Execution Noble anticipating some slowdown in general merchandise trading.”
“Both Lamarckians and Weismannists admit that the better adapted to its surroundings a living form may be, the more likely it is to outbreed its compeers.”
“Their great compeers, the giants of thought, foreshadow what it will be.”
“As these worthy compeers were on their route to the frontier, they fell in with another expedition, likewise on its way to the mountains.”