Parison

Line 7, 'Desiring this man's art and that man's scope', deftly displays the figure of rhetoric known as parison, or the symmetrical repetition of words in grammatically parallel phrases. ❋ Bevington, David (2002)

(Many cellphones, by com-parison, operate at 2 GHz.) ❋ Unknown (2007)

Of course, the use of white lead in ancient Rome paled in parison to the workout it got during the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. ❋ Jan (2008)

It is possible for the same sentence to have all these features together-antithesis, parison, and homoeoteleuton. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

In a passage that brilliantly demonstrates the rhetorical devices we saw earlier in Shakespeare's poetry, such as stichomythia, antithesis, parison, and isocolon (see Chapter 1), Hamlet makes plain that he is on the offensive. ❋ Bevington, David (2002)

Gold had cultivated a moustache to discourage the com-parison, but it wasn't a very good one; it refused to connect beneath his nose. ❋ Castro, Adam Troy (2001)

For Branding, it served to put into perspective human concerns and anxieties, which seemed, in com-parison, both fleeting and inconsequential. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1990)

The wintry gloom of Seitforest stood replaced by a towering ring of cedars whose age and majesty held no com-parison to any woodland known to mortals. ❋ Wurts, Janny (1989)

Greensville's very much like Plains, Georgia, if you'll pardon my corn parison. ❋ Charles, Ray, 1930-2004. Cn (1978)

There were color and variety to make Earth's richest jungles seem pallid and wan in com - parison.. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1975)

"All you tell me makes the complicated sorceries and cosmologies of my world seem simple in com - parison," Elric smiled as they crossed the peaceful landscape. ❋ Moorcock, Michael, 1939- (1970)

It is only naturalistic, really, in com - parison with all other landscape paintings of the six - teenth century, but it is naturalistic in details like the black blackbird against the winter twilight sky and the snow-covered hills. ❋ FRITZ NOVOTNY (1968)

A com - parison of the works of Archimedes and Apollonius ❋ SALOMON BOCHNER (1968)

In a signal contribution, Paul A. Samuelson (1938) Page 457, Volume 4 presented a theory of choice based, not on the com - parison between two baskets, but on observable budget data. ❋ NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-ROEGEN (1968)

The island in turn is a macrocosm when com - pared to the loadstone, but it is a microcosm in com - parison with Balnibarbi, which it governs in the sense that it had the power to shut out light and rain from the country below. ❋ MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON (1968)

By all accounts, the scene which was staged at the evening conference at the end of that day must have made all of Hitler's previous outbursts seem negligible by com - parison. ❋ Clark, Alan (1965)

First, make a _proemium_ or beginnyng to your co [m] parison [.] ❋ Richard Rainolde (N/A)

In com - parison with the other elementary instincts and impulses, the emotions of love, of pity and of friendship are too weak and too cramped to lead to a tolerable state of human society. ❋ Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 (1950)

The suggestion is given only because it has often recurred, and therefore with the feeling that there is something more than fanciful in the com - parison; and yet, after all, the comparison fails in one important particular, for none of the prophets seems to have had a sense of humor! ❋ Conwell, Russell H (1915)

Parisons [mim] is [gay] [No u] ❋ U_iS-A HO;;NiGa (2018)