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And if you know about Tupac you know that Drake don't hold a candle to Tupac which means he don't hold a candle to K. Dot.
In the end, Covenant doesn't hold a candle to Alien.
But none of these hold a candle to Beyoncé's Homecoming.
This Blair Witch just can't hold a candle to the original.
Robbie claims her famous co-stars can't hold a candle to Ackerley.
None of them hold a candle to Alexis, our beloved shark/dolphin.
But it doesn't hold a candle to her rendition of Queen Bey.
For sheer softness, though, it didn't hold a candle to the lokum.
But that doesn't hold a candle to spending time in the store itself.
Yet, for this director, exposition can't hold a candle to elegantly staged shootouts.
But none of this chaos can hold a candle to Quinn and Rachel.
Nevertheless, Democrats can't hold a candle to Republicans in erecting barriers to voting.
After all, even Disney magic doesn't hold a candle to the aurora borealis.
But in terms of irredeemable characters, nobody can hold a candle to Sebastian himself.
That doesn't really hold a candle to what she said on Twitter on Tuesday.
Of course, none of them can really hold a candle to the man himself.
Plain old baked potatoes and sour cream can't hold a candle to this dish.
As it turns out, it does not hold a candle to today's factionalized politics.
None, however, hold a candle to the RoboCop-like Dr. Dennis Gross SpectraLite EyeCare Pro.
Call me a snob, but farmed salmon doesn't hold a candle to the real thing.
All of the stars in the sky or the boulevard don't hold a candle to that.
But none of these rekindlings would hold a candle to Pitt and Aniston getting back together.
Neither of these stories hold a candle to the emotion of the two main stories, however.
As for repairability, the latest and greatest iPhones clearly won't hold a candle to the Fairphone.
Trump can't hold a candle to Obama, so he's taking a tiki torch to Obama's legacy.
Which might be why her salary in 2018 won't hold a candle to Lauer's pile of cash.
The dinner that destroyed Gawker The Outline's reported struggles don't hold a candle to Gawker's tumultuous past.
There's only one candidate who can hold a candle to the Trump campaign's Facebook spending: Joe Biden.
Yes, as dramatic as a career shift may be, it doesn't hold a candle to milk padlocks.
Unfortunately, according to the I Am Vincent voters thus far, Reynolds doesn't hold a candle to Arpi.
" Kesha also duets with Dolly Parton on a cover of "Old Flames (Can't Hold a Candle To You).
My iPhone XS Max on Verizon couldn't hold a candle to numbers that the V25 was putting up.
Ronan and Zendaya wouldn't just hold a candle to the original Clueless, they would light the Olympic torch.
I've seen the original "Lion King" countless times and never thought anything could hold a candle to it.
Yet, he just can't hold a candle to his wife when it comes to being a good person.
Few can hold a candle to Brad Feld's list of accolades in the startup, tech and venture world.
But they do not hold a candle to the uncanny sensation of encountering one of Hocking's works in person.
That effort has produced a few classics, but none can hold a candle to the cover for America #2.
What Osama bin Laden did to us was terrible but he doesn't hold a candle to Mitch McConnell. pic.twitter.
Sure, they can't hold a candle to Scorpios in the mystery department, but there is something undeniably unknowable about them.
"I've climbed perhaps the highest mountain in the world, but even that cannot hold a candle to being Barbara's husband."
Still, nothing can hold a candle to the spectacle that will light up the night this coming Sunday, December 3.
Yet WASET doesn't hold a candle to OMICS Publishing Group, which is likely the largest predatory publisher in the world.
They generally don&apost hold a candle to travel credit cards when it comes to earning rewards on your spending.
But Harlem has lost its shimmy and shake, Guy swears; Amsterdam Avenue can't hold a candle to the Champs Élysées.
It can't hold a candle to arugula or kale, which bring spiciness and earthiness to the proverbial (and literal) table.
But none of those hold a candle to "Breath of the Wah'ld," a piece of perfection that turns Link into Waluigi.
"Anything that we do, criminally speaking, is not going to hold a candle to the pain that this family feels," Sgt.
In another clip released before Monday's episode, Taylor admits that he can't hold a candle to the other guys in house.
Merck: Pharmaceutical player Merck will also issue its earnings report, but Cramer said it can't hold a candle to rival AbbVie.
These game over screens got more brutal as the games went along, but none of them hold a candle to... 3.
" But these earlier, pallid attempts at multi-culturalism don't hold a candle to the range of colors and ethnicities in "Rogue One.
The cult flick may live on in the TV universe, but let's hope this crew can hold a candle to the OGs.
La La Land doesn't hold a candle to Moonlight, Fences, Hidden Figures or the other films it's up against at the Oscars.
"Anything that we do, criminally speaking, is not going to hold a candle to the pain that this family feels," said Sgt.
Although ASCII art generators have existed for years, they still don't hold a candle to the intricate ASCII art made by hand.
Because, at the end of the day, these temporary trends don't hold a candle to our easy-to-execute, everyday beauty routine.
Just trying to point out that whatever we fantasized about as children doesn't hold a candle to what an orphan wished for.
Let's be honest, there isn't a tech mogul alive who can hold a candle to Bezos when it comes to charisma these days.
Whether or not a series of controlled tests can really hold a candle to Machii's instincts, improvisation, and creativity is up for debate.
Both guys had stuff with their faces all over it ... but we're guessing Francis' Rosaries don't hold a candle to Saint Pablo swag.
In a new poll of 2017's most admired women in the U.S., First Lady Melania Trump didn't hold a candle to her predecessor.
Both Kesha and her mother, "Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You" songwriter Pebe Sebert, have accused Luke of abusing the pop star.
It's probably going to be a rout and thus can't hold a candle to the WWE-style donnybrook that the GOP is putting on.
If you've heard Kesha's recording of Dolly Parton's "Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You," you already knew she could sing like that.
But it cannot hold a candle to a toddler when it comes to recognizing faces or performing a task as simple as climbing steps.
However true it may be, it doesn't hold a candle to the fact that this one is imbued with an unreplicable aura of specialness.
As music videos go, it doesn't really hold a candle to her "California Gurls" or "Teenage Dream" efforts, but it does work with the song.
" Amazon user H.K.Rodman writes: "I paid twice as much for another sharpener, and it doesn't hold a candle to this one, I'm sorry to say!
Outside the heroes, the armies are not terribly memorable and certainly won't hold a candle to the personality of the armies in the Warhammer games.
Sadly, your skills can't hold a candle to this truck-driving Jedi who squeezes a full tractor trailer into an impossibly narrow spot without a scratch.
However, our dedication doesn't hold a candle to the folks over at FlyerTalk, an obsessive online community focused on tracking flight deals and comparing loyalty programs.
There are plenty of freezer aisle alternatives to feed your faux-bacon habit, but none of them hold a candle to this slow-roasted shiitake bacon.
She said the introductions most people are receiving to VR, via low-cost means such as Google Cardboard, don't hold a candle to high-end systems.
While that was impressive, the 40-mile-per-hour darts it shot barely hold a candle to the destructive power of the seven-foot-long water pistol.
Sorry world, a bratswurst or a boerewors can never hold a candle to a slightly-burned supermarket beef sausage in a piece of near-stale white bread.
It can even hold a candle to Sony's best full-frame cameras, covering 84 percent of the image area compared to 93 percent on the Alpha A9.
But we bet it doesn't hold a candle to this computer mouse, which hosts a whole, functional computer inside of its housing, complete with keyboard and screen.
But even he couldn't hold a candle to his overjoyed father, Shoukath, who continued to steal attention by gleefully waving to the crowd whenever Ansari mentioned him.
Even some of our favorite food holidays (World Nutella Day, February 5) can't hold a candle to the holey-est day of the, all, National Doughnut Day.
The WASPy Sherman McCoy had a $3 million Park Avenue co-op, but -- as jurors discovered this week in Alexandria -- he couldn't hold a candle to Manafort.
You might notice that after eight hours of sitting in a desk chair, that your couch doesn't hold a candle to a lawn chair by the campfire.
As crowded as Burlingame was, however, it didn't hold a candle to the full-on outdoor recreating going on at Walden Pond on the outskirts of Boston.
But though it's an eyepopping, expensive showstopper, there's no way the fifth nominee in the category, The Greatest Showman, can hold a candle to The Big Sick.
Good shots are possible even at night, though LG's Night view doesn't hold a candle to the Huawei P83 Pro's low-light capabilities or the Pixel's Night Sight.
But voice search on the Roku is very simple, and cannot hold a candle to the things Siri on Apple TV or Alexa on Fire TV can do.
And while the Democratic debate over delegates and process is also striking some as heated, it too, can't hold a candle to the division on the Republican side.
The debate showed once again that none of the Republican candidates (including Trump) could hold a candle to the Democrats' grasp of the issues Americans care most about.
Online shopping picked up steam, but the experience (while convenient) didn't hold a candle to having a dedicated sales associate walking you through specific items you might like.
There are several crappy versions of P.T. readily available right now to download on Google Play, for example, but they don't hold a candle to the real thing.
Let's not even try to compare it to prosciutto or serrano—Krakus may have come from the motherland, but it can't hold a candle to its fancy cousins.
Check out Meghan McCain's eulogy to her dad ... she moves the audience to applause as she explains how the current President can't hold a candle to her dad.
"Someone like Carlos the Jackal is more notorious, but doesn't hold a candle to someone like Badreddine," says Bruce Hoffman, director of Georgetown University's Center for Security Studies.
It feels a little slippery in my hand, and can't hold a candle to the Essential Phone or the Galaxy S8's remarkable build quality, but it's good enough.
All images: Sam Rutherford/GizmodoThe Apple Watch might be the most popular smartwatch, but its controls and interface don't hold a candle to what you get on Samsung's watches.
Other smart home hubs like the Echo – and many similarly priced home priced home speaker systems – can't hold a candle to what the HomePod is able to replicate sonically.
No matter how obsessed you may be with makeup, your beauty love can't hold a candle to renowned makeup artist Trish McEvoy's passion for everything lipstick and mascara related.
All the musical accompanists are taken ill — a chanteuse "slumps unconscious from the piano stool" — and suddenly a film, now truly silent, cannot hold a candle to Icelandic realities.
While there are certainly some nice deals on stuff like the Surface Pro 4, none of them really hold a candle to last year's offer of a free Xbox One.
And to round off his trip, Frank visits some of the city's many New York-style pizzerias to see if they can hold a candle to actual New York pizza.
They weren't the best and couldn't hold a candle to an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy, but they were good enough for Instagram, and isn't that all that matters these days?
Yet on social media, some guys who couldn't hold a candle to Brady are fat-shaming him for not having the body of Superman as drawn in the comic books.
Store-bought American hummus couldn't hold a candle to the homemade stuff from home, so to quell her homesickness, Manal pulled out her grandmother's recipe and began making it herself.
It couldn't hold a candle to more premium devices like last year's Samsung Galaxy S28 and also relied too much on modular components that were too clunky to mess with.
In the end, more disposable income doesn't hold a candle to having someone to rely on in a time of need (something that 95 percent of Danes believe they have).
How could anyone imagine that today's gun violence, which claims 30,000+ lives each year, would hold a candle to the loss of life that took place between 18613 and 1865?
She slows things down with a cover of Dolly Parton's "Old Flames (Can't Hold a Candle to You)," dueting with Dolly herself on a song that Kesha's mother co-wrote.
But the sensitivity of data stolen from OPM doesn't hold a candle to the information that would be exposed if a broadband provider were hacked and millions of web histories misappropriated.
It really doesn't hold a candle to Sony's Eye-AF, which focuses on the closest eyeball of a subject and works shockingly well, even at a very shallow depth of field.
It can't hold a candle to his Oscar-winning toons, but it was easily the most entertaining, touching and happy-making blockbuster in a summer that was mostly filled with misfires.
Thumbelina is a bit of a wet blanket of a character, and none of the song lyrics can hold a candle to the work Howard Ashman did in The Little Mermaid.
Dallek estimates that historical examples of corruption, like that of the Warren G. Harding administration, don't hold a candle to how Trump and his people have conducted themselves in the White House.
The next iPhone may not be able to hold a candle to the Galaxy S8 when it comes to how fast you'll be able to download music and movies or surf the web.
The app repository doesn't hold a candle to what you'll find on Apple's platform (there's no official Google Maps watch app, for example), but there's enough to make this watch a worthwhile investment.
While only a draft, it doesn't sound like it'd hold a candle to the crisp comedy of the "Skinner and the Superintendent" scene, which is arguably one of the show's finest pieces of writing.
The Red Sox gave MM and PH a team onesie, which was cute ... but it didn't really hold a candle to the Yankees' gift -- a custom baby jersey, with Archie's name on the back.
He's unlike a character that I've ever seen — I've played some dastardly motherfuckers but they don't hold a candle to Negan… people follow him because they're scared shitless of him, as they should be.
On Rainbow, she collaborates with Dolly Parton on a version of "Old Flames (Can't Hold a Candle to You)," a country standard that Kesha's mother co-wrote and that Parton covered herself back in 1980.
These hoaxes run the gamut between good-natured pranks and instruments of incredible cruelty, but none hold a candle to The Push, which again, is a show about manipulating human beings into murdering each other.
We're not sure of the science behind why that is a universal truth, but we can assure you that the chain-restaurant-branded frozen version of this dip doesn't hold a candle to this one.
Its 10,000 concurrent players may not hold a candle to what World of Warcraft still draws even with its declining subscriptions from the content drought, but it partly succeeded in resurrecting the WoW that was.
If LiAngelo Ball were coming out of college this year, he'd be the No. 1 overall pick ... AHEAD of Zion Williamson -- so says LaVar Ball, who tells TMZ Sports, "He can't hold a candle" to Gelo.
Even the dancier boy band NSYNC couldn't hold a candle to the way Usher moved, as if he always knew the precise location of every single one of his fingers and toes in time and space.
" And if Impossible Foods should want to go public, they'll have a ready investor in Sydney Masters, who says: "Beyond Burger doesn't hold a candle to Impossible Foods — unfortunately it is a private company or I'd invest!
That's right: The biodegradable mask, which is infused with cocoa, mulberry, and honey, promises "pure radiance," but no hydrating ingredient can hold a candle to the fact that it'll make skin appear holographic while you wear it.
Harrelson is a perfect fit for his role, terrifying and tortured at once, but in War for the Planet of the Apes he can't hold a candle to Andy Serkis, playing Caesar beneath layers of truly remarkable CGI.
While the best laptops include all sorts of mobile computing devices that run on Windows 10, few of them hold a candle to Apple&aposs MacBook line in terms of support as well as software and hardware quality.
And as packed full of details as it was, it can't hold a candle to Dan Glasure's custom creation that took two months to build and incorporates elements from almost all of the Batman movies, comics, and TV series.
Though Ben Stiller (who also directed and co-wrote) and Owen Wilson slip back into their roles — like they never left, really — as Derek and Hansel, Zoolander 2 can't hold a candle to the perfect strangeness of the original.
Last night, we watched Peter Weber unseat Arie Luyendyk Jr. as the most wishy-washy Bachelor in the franchise's 18-year history, but even that villainous behavior couldn't hold a candle to the chaotic energy of his mother Barbara.
Lots of folks likely consider themselves the ultimate Star Trek fan, but there's a good chance none could hold a candle to James Cawley, a 50-year-old professional Elvis impersonator living in a tiny town in upstate New York.
The plaid-obsessed Vancouver native is up there with Brian Linehan, Howard Stern and Bob Costas as one of the greatest celebrity interviewers ever, but even his interviewing skills can't hold a candle to his incomparably vast knowledge of pop culture.
Yet, sick though France is, she cannot hold a candle to your fashionably brained American who would have us believe that the land of Coolidge is a snare and a delusion, that Greenwich Village is boring while Montparnasse is inspiring, etc.
Although Amazon has done a pretty decent job of filling out its app store for its Fire tablets, that store can't hold a candle to what's available on the main Google Play Store, and it definitely disappoints when compared to the iPad.
But the Key2 doesn't hold a candle to smartphone camera staples like the Pixel 2 XL and the iPhone X. After all, business users also want to take great photos with their phones, but the Key2 clearly isn't cut out for that.
Although the Fifty Shades character's Seattle penthouse is pretty impressive, it doesn't hold a candle to this 5-floor, 11,000-square-foot pad in the heart of New York City that would make the perfect palace for a mysterious bachelor (or bachelorette).
Sometimes it is hard to understand who is besting whom and why: Jessica Jones is strong as hell but not very good at martial arts, so how is it that she can hold a candle to the katana-wielding hordes of The Hand?
It's a fairly blatant reskin of the Great British Baking Show: Hosted in a tent in an idyllic setting, supportive rather than combative, but honestly much less stressful as the crafting challenges don't hold a candle to the technical aspects of expert-level baking.
Breville. De'Longhi's version of the VertuoPlus Deluxe is also on sale, but at 28% off, its discount can't hold a candle to that of its competitor: You can order Breville's model here for only $111.99, or 44% off its suggested retail price of $199.95.
Liam Fox, the trade secretary, and Andrea Leadsom, Leader of the House of Commons, are strong candidates for this award, but nobody can hold a candle to the transport secretary, Chris "Failing" Grayling, whose combination of incompetence and unpopularity put him several lengths ahead of the rest.
In terms of elegance, they don't hold a candle to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, but I suppose that's to be expected when you're writing an academic paper and not a speculative science-fiction novel that doesn't actually have to obey the laws of physics.
The Taken King's story didn't hold a candle to anything from Halo, but it was enough to get me digging into the other parts of Destiny, culminating in a fan letting me join their raid group and running through the most hardcore experience Destiny has to offer.
He's neither as magnetic as he was in his early Pirates heyday nor as irritating as he's been in the recent Kevin Smith movies – and he doesn't hold a candle to Colin Farrell, who played a disguised version of the character in the first Fantastic Beasts.
Google will have to be aggressive and creative with its approach to transactions with Assistant if the company wants to hold a candle to Amazon's Alexa-powered devices like Echo, Dot and now Show, which give shoppers quick and easy access to the company's expansive inventory.
FreshDirect's produce is, on average, excellent — and if you ask me, the annoyance of getting the occasional batch of unripe bananas in my order doesn't hold a candle to the nightmare that is going to the store and carrying groceries home on a Sunday in the city.
Though her lawyer claimed that she's been working on 28 new songs, the pop star stuck to a set list of covers including Grace's "You Don't Own Me," Dolly Parton's "Jolene" and "Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You," which was written by her mother Pebe Sebert.
After all, these events don't hold a candle to the carnage or the striking narratives that come with shootings like those in Hesston, Kansas, or Kalamazoo, Michigan, in late February—incidents that set a high bar for the kinds of mass shootings that garner national awareness and empathy.
Of course this stuff can't hold a candle to original kids' comics and cartoon series — say, a classic like Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races — which generations of children past consumed in place of freebie content on YouTube because, well, ad-funded, self-sorting, free-to-access digital technology platforms didn't exist then.
The fact is that Siri doesn't hold a candle to Google Assistant in many ways, and while the functionality of voice control on the AirPods is largely focused on music and calls, the superior intelligence of Google Assistant should make them a much clearer companion for a set of earbuds.
Rebooting the franchise with 2009's Star Trek, Abrams blithely deviated from the original story's timeline and lore so he could make adjustments, and while neither of his movies can hold a candle to Star Trek II or Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the willingness to tinker made them unpredictable and intriguing.
After a few years of looking enviously at my SNES-owning pals and their Link to the Pasts and Secret of Manas (and, later, their imported Final Fantasy VIs and Chrono Triggers), here was a Mega Drive game that looked like it could hold a candle to that level of action-adventuring.
Key & Peele Sure, you've seen stars Keegan-Michael Key (a best supporting actor nominee this year) and Jordan Peele pop up in everything from sitcoms and the MTV VMAs to the White House Correspondents Dinner, but none of those appearances hold a candle to the insane, creative and downright hysterical episodes of their sketch show.
But crazy as it is, it's also the reason I am happier and more productive on a Mac than I could ever be on an iPad or Chrome OS. Sure, there are extension systems for those computers, but they don't hold a candle to what I can do when the entire system is available for tweaking.
In honor of her impending retirement, let's take a walk down memory lane Her 1992 Pepsi Super Bowl Commercial Sure, Beyoncé and Britney Spears had some pretty unforgettable soda spots of their own, but all of the performances and spectacles don't hold a candle to Crawford, strutting across a rest stop in a white tank top and denim cutoffs.
I never have to worry about charging them, and even the best wireless headphones around can't hold a candle to the plug and play convenience of a good old-fashioned headphone jack (or slightly more awkward 3.5mm to Lightning cable adapter, in my case.) Don't get me wrong, I understand the benefits of a wireless pair of headphones too.
Reality television is far from a utopian space, but it has been an accepting one for many years — if you want to see the grand diversity of American life, scripted television doesn't hold a candle to reality, which moves with a sure-footed combination of empathy and voyeurism that allows room for almost anyone to be a compelling protagonist.
This is an album that opens with a song called "Bastards" ("Don't let the bastards bring you down"), features two singalong scuzz-pop tracks with Eagles of Death Metal, and builds in a duet with Dolly Parton, "Old Flames (Can't Hold a Candle to You)," the hit that Kesha's own mother co-wrote for Parton in 1978.
With a 9.7″ screen sporting a 1024×768 pixel resolution it doesn't hold a candle to the iPad's Retina displays, which seems like a shame (going back to a non-Retina display after you've gotten used to super-crisp text and images is pretty jarring), but in Loop's defense, its target audience may not care, prioritizing ease of use over razor-sharp visuals.
A song like "Teratoma," for example, where Thompson-King's opera-trained voice seems restricted to a specific octave and forced to maintain a monotone voice in between each choral refrain feels restricted to the theme instead of enhanced by it, whereas her cover of Dolly Parton's "Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You" probably would have run wild and free with that treatment.
Some gamely tried: Luke James, whose falsetto on "Do Me, Baby" attracted the first lusty shrieks of the night, and Bilal, the most impressive male singer here not named Stevie, who woke up three-quarters of the way through "The Beautiful Ones" and kept putting his limber voice to work through "If I Was Your Girlfriend" (though his performance couldn't hold a candle to his riveting Prince tribute at the BET Awards in June).
Actor Jim Carrey blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellLawmakers run into major speed bumps on spending bills Budowsky: Donald, Boris, Bibi — The right in retreat Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg to meet with lawmakers | Big tech defends efforts against online extremism | Trump attends secretive Silicon Valley fundraiser | Omar urges Twitter to take action against Trump tweet MORE for his lack of action on gun reform legislation, saying in a tweet that the late terrorist leader Osama bin Laden "doesn't hold a candle to" the Kentucky Republican.

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