bear comparison

Over the space of a few decades, Silicon Valley has staged its own Wilder West show, with a cast of nerdy outliers who, with both BS and brilliance, have conjured up and talked up some completely absurd notions, some unnerving ones, and, once in a while, some world-altering ideas that can bear comparison to Thomas Edison’s.

There are fast numbers, like “Hey Grandma” and “Omaha,” that come out of the gate at a gallop, and slow ones, like the plaintive “8:05,” that bear comparison to some of the all-time great busted-heart country ballads.

The unbearable pain felt by these two women may bear comparison, but there the similarities end: they have nothing in common when it comes to their desires about what should happen to him.

Here We Go Again includes new versions of Waterloo, Fernando and Dancing Queen - none of which bear comparison to the originals.

It eventually involved breaking down shots in ways that bear comparison to magic tricks, in terms of only working from one perspective.