The same can said for many other works (which stand up well to comparison with current fiction).
The recent shootings have led to comparisons with last summer, when 29 children were shot and eight of them killed over three months.
This would stand up to comparison with any of the old national capitals on Earth.
Despite the state's aversion to comparison, many have been made.
Mainstream media is also a main contributor to social comparisons.
The data was converted to average daily figures and comparisons made in this way.
But the students, who made the movie a topic on their show, are indifferent to such comparisons.
The figures that she gave referred to comparisons with the private sector, not the national health service.
The efficiency of the system has not, however, been subjected to adequate comparison.
Conservatives like to point to international comparisons to demonstrate how poorly American students are doing.