What is "pale in comparison"

Usage examples of "pale in comparison".

Galliez pursues Bertrand to Paris, but the werewolf's atrocities pale in comparison with the wholesale slaughter taking place in 1870 during the Paris Commune.

No more Network reluctance to make a program too entertaining for fear its commercials would pale in comparison.

Evidently, the service under way upstairs was rather pale in comparison, although even Painted Stick, taking time out from his contemplation of that point where the beam of the moon intersected light from the star, had to admit that the pipe organ provided musical possibilities unimagined by drum or tambourine.

But the Frenchman who goes up is possessed with a passion beside which any of the other forms of experience that are reckoned to make life worth while seem pale in comparison.

My feelings for her made any previous relationship pale in comparison.

But a thousand stories pale in comparison to a single scream of agony.

Actually, I became quite concerned for the state of the coach, for that dilapidated vehicle was taking a beating which made the rigors of the past days' journey pale in comparison.