evokes/invites comparison with
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: to be similar to
His poetry evokes/invites comparison with the work of Robert Frost.
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At times Audition invites comparison with Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled, a richer, more symphonic meditation on related themes of art, performance, love, and responsibility that likewise aims to shift the bounds of reality and illusion without undermining its substance.
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Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
In an acoustical mystery that invites comparison with the beautiful anomalies of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, voices project handsomely in the auditorium without getting lost in the wind.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
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Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
In an acoustical mystery that invites comparison with the beautiful anomalies of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, voices project handsomely in the auditorium without getting lost in the wind.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
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