Although the dreamlike quality of his work makes the film director David Lynch his nearest American counterpart, Lynch's palette is primarily nocturnal while Murakami's welcomes the noontime sun.

To demonstrate something of the scope of the task which children have to undertake, this chapter examines one area of written discourse where language use deviates widely from the nearest oral counterparts, and where many variants have no oral counterpart at all.

In this regard, his nearest American counterpart may be Joel Otterson.

Shaft tombs themselves are not encountered elsewhere in Mesoamerica and their nearest counterparts come from northwestern South America.

Thinking, too, I guess, about the ironic circumstance that had cast him on a planet where his nearest counterpart was a little animal that no one cared to have much to do with.

The nearest counterpart to the Tartar warriors of Lyra's Arctic are perhaps the Buryat people of Lake Baikal.

In Borkenau's view, the nearest historical counterpart to German policy was French expansionism during the French Revolution and the age of Napoleon.

Chartered secretaries have had to develop during the 1980s in much the same way as their nearest counterparts, lawyers and accountants.

Mark Twain would be the nearest American counterpart.

A desperate downward glance showed me that they were not true hyenas; they differed from the breed I had known just as everything on Almuric differed subtly from its nearest counterpart on Earth.