City officials begged comparison by standing shoulder-to-shoulder with clowns in tuxedoes.

The far larger town of Périgueux begs comparison with Sarlat: it is less well preserved, but also less precious.

This passage begs comparison with Kidnapped itself:

In all these aspects, his character begs comparison with real-life Beach Boys' driving-force Brian Wilson.

All this begs comparison to that other 19th-century example of great talent stifled by opium, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

The way he pulled his head into the blue anorak begged comparison with a turtle, but the comparison failed.

Late Ramsay begs comparison with Nattier and Perronneau, and often excels them.

Two canvas chairs were placed side by side in a machine that begged comparison with the Wright brothers' first efforts.

There are also elements that beg comparison to (and differentiation from) postwar abstraction.