The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.
Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown daughters, mixed with the sense of responsibility for their well-being, can be overwhelming, matched only by the hurt they feel when their attempts to help or just stay connected are rebuffed or even excoriated as criticism or devilish interference.
If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.
The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding.
The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.
There's a lot of guys in the UFC who are good at one thing, and they get matched up stylistically well.
It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.
The video game industry is constantly evolving. The sheer creativity matched with cutting-edge technologies gives me the comfort that innovation is alive and well in America.
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
