How To Use Touchstone In A Sentence
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Touchstone was looking out at his capital as Sam came in, watching the lights come on.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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But "Le corbeau" still was a touchstone for the young François Truffaut, and Claude Chabrol has drawn on Clouzot's mordant critiques of bourgeois society.
A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery
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The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman.
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Vegas has been a touchstone for a while of squalid stupid behavior, and the “what happens in Vegas” catch-phrase/marketing gimmick is definitely one of those things that has national saturation.
THE HANGOVER Unrated Blu-ray Review – Collider.com
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Our writings serve as the academy's benchmarks, the ethical touchstones for the noblest of professions.
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Ridley's treatment of the role of inheritance in the determination of intelligence and, more generally, of personality, will be for many readers the touchstone by which his book is judged.
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It lacks the note of inevitableness which is the final touchstone of tragic greatness.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
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It is about whether originalism is the only touchstone of legitimate constitutional interpretation.
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For conservatives, there can be no compromise on an issue that has become the touchstone of orthodoxy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Love is the touchstone of virtue.
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Then again, in full sail, she was a wonderful sight: Rod Hull's emu as styled by Salvador Dali, a human triffid who smoked Benson and Hedges, who never wore underwear and whose touchstones in life were good jewellery and high birth, and not a lot else.
Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow by Detmar Blow
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As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries man.
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We are, after all, introduced to him in the first stanza through his tastes, the touchstones he cannot lay aside and by which he judges all else.
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Sabriel pushed on "three" and Touchstone on "push," so their combined effort took several seconds to synchronize.
SABRIEL
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Had we lived, I should have a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman," Scott wrote in his diary, words that have become a touchstone for generations of Brits.
Polar Exploration for Armchair Travelers
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The popularity of his hymns made him a cultural touchstone.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Dried beef strips, garnished with watercress from the fringes of the spring, and monosyllabic responses from Touchstone.
SABRIEL
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Small black stones were used as touchstones to test the colour, and hence purity, of gold.
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What, in short, is the touchstone by which to recognise a special class of people from members of the general public?
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It is about the false use of personal chronology as an indicator or touchstone of human capacity and worth.
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These streets of terraced houses have become a touchstone for local Brexiteers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The insistence on the exclusion of English has become, as of now, a sort of status symbol, a touchstone of supremacy and learning, to many of our linguistic torch-bearers, not to speak of their avowed predilection for regionalism.
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The truth of the matter is that the current account deficit is a touchstone for the success of the Thatcher revolution.
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Sabriel pushed on "three" and Touchstone on "push," so their combined effort took several seconds to synchronize.
SABRIEL
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It is a touchstone for art writing and a virtuosic work of ekphrasis.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I would have thought ID cards are a pretty fundamental issue if not a touchstone of liberal credentials.
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An article in a foreign journal becomes a touchstone and then a norm, unless it is torn asunder by some path-breaking discovery.
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Its touchstone is the autonomous individual celebrated by John Locke in
On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position
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Smith endorsed capitalism as a means to his ultimate value - control of arbitrary rule, a premise that has remained a touchstone of liberalism.
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This attitude comes mostly from the idea that American middle-class values are the touchstone from which all else should be judged.
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Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus PhoenixAs we wrote behind in July, this is "retro cocktail hyper-focused upon a futuristic reimagination of postmodernism as good as neoclassicism as proletarian touchstones ... that we can dance to.
The Best Albums Of 2009, In Bigger Than The Sound | Industry Fokery
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This album is the touchstone of blue-eyed soul.
Times, Sunday Times
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The actual numbers may not be that impressive, but we became part of the zeitgeist, like a cultural touchstone.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because we sometimes learn and remember best through the use of mnemonics I have created the following mental touchstones.
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Fie upon thee! man needs should have some certain test set up to try his friends, some touchstone of their hearts, to know each friend whether he be true or false; all men should have two voices, one the voice of honesty, expediency's the other, so would honesty confute its knavish opposite, and then we could not be deceived.
Hippolytus
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Such an evaluation of gold jewellery is done by a goldsmith with the help of a touchstone.
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Long Day's Journey" is, after all, a five-character, one-set play, and even though four of the characters are members of a theatrical family, their intramural sniping is easier to take — and to sympathize with — when presented on the unexaggerated scale enabled by the Touchstone Theatre and encouraged by John Langs, the director of this production.
Little House in the Big Woods
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It becomes a touchstone, something that people can refer to, use as a shorthand and take as a common foundation.
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With prescription drug abuse now classed as an epidemic in America, it has become something of a cultural touchstone.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a touchstone for unity in an oft fractured region.
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But the majority of the Chinese artists who are squabbled over by blue chip dealers and by museums eager to feature them in prestigious one-person shows have one thing in common: The political and economic history between Mao's infamous cultural revolution and present-day China's overeager capitalism provides a recurrent touchstone in their art's imagery.
Robert Ayers: Wang Huaiqing's Chinese Art in Seattle
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But, while Shinn is a good social reporter, he seems slightly confused in his attitude to Stephen: one moment he is the play's moral touchstone, and the next a prig.
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It is a touchstone against which I measure my own political views.
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This season's touchstone of understated femininity is soon to be passed over in favour of sexed-up, vibrant skirts and dresses, as seen at Roland Mouret, or in favour of a new androgyny championed on the catwalk by Dries Van Noten and Balenciaga.
Paris fashion week: wardrobe updates
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If the biennial is the art world's version of a barometer, the Whitney Biennial, now in its 75th year, is its touchstone.
Forbes.com: News
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Ireland was the touchstone of progressive Italian thinkers at this time.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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There, too, we met a match for sighing Orlando, -- mirrored in the water; there, too, some diluted Jaques may have "moralized" the excursion for next day's "Courier," and some lout of a Touchstone (there are always such in picnics) passed the ices, made poor puns, and won more than his share of the smiles.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863
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As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries man.
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The half-time show has become a cultural touchstone.
Times, Sunday Times
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African American essayists, historians, novelists, playwrights, and poets have found in John Brown both a symbol of sacrifice and a touchstone of commitment to the cause of black freedom.
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Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus PhoenixAs we wrote behind in July, this is "retro cocktail hyper-focused upon a futuristic reimagination of postmodernism as good as neoclassicism as proletarian touchstones ... that we can dance to.
The Best Albums Of 2009, In Bigger Than The Sound | Industry Fokery
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Yet after the war modernists and their allies seized on this symbol of the antiquity of Japanese culture as a touchstone for their own designs.
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Confession remained the touchstone of guilt or innocence.
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The tithe, for some religious groups, is the favored touchstone for defining the duty of stewardship, to the point of making it a legalized yardstick applied as a criterion for membership.
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But, as the chemist prefers distilled H2 O in testing solutions to avoid complications and unwarranted reactions, so the Black Woman holds that her femineity linked with the impossibility of popular affinity or unexpected attraction through position and influence in her case makes her a touchstone of American courtesy exceptionally pure and singularly free from extraneous modifiers.
A Voice From the South
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And the eldest brother, Dmitri, the sensualist is the one who in a sense becomes the moral touchstone of the whole book because he's the one who ends up taking responsibility for a crime he hasn't committed.
BBC Radio 3 Literary Proms: Archbishop on Dostoevsky
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Harry and Sally bicker over Casablanca; for the women of Sleepless in Seattle, the emotional touchstone is An Affair to Remember (“Men never get this movie!”).
Double-X Films
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The new Proprietor looked on him and saw a man triumphing where the multitude of essaying disciples fail: not in lofty ideals, not in emotional experiences, not in grand works undertaken; but in the prosiest, hardest spot -- albeit the touchstone of many a man's consecration -- the _money question_.
The First Soprano
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State independence and individual self-reliance are touchstones of Texan society.
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I agee with you that she's been our touchstone ... and we've lost that without her.
Doctor Who Smattering of Spoilers
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Situated alongside the River Thames, the iconic power plant has been featured in works by The Who, Pink Floyd and The Beatles, and now this cultural touchstone is being retrofitted into a self-sufficent community powered by a zero-carbon energy plant.
Mike Chino | Inhabitat
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There are Australianisms of language and tone, Australian touchstones of reference, that should be consciously preserved.
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The closely watched investigation is rapidly becoming a touchstone case for the future of e-banking in South Africa.
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Themes included pantsula and gumboot dancing and local jazz, all touchstones of South African music.
Nelson Mandela attends World Cup closing ceremony
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Is this supposed to hearken back to once-cool cultural touchstones like "breakdance" or to associate with the totally uncool "Dance Dance Revolution" craze?
Archive 2007-01-01
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JACOB HILL, BROTHER OF HELEN HILL: If, in some grotesque way, Helen has become a touchstone to what's happened in New Orleans, then, I didn't want her to be a martyr, but let's -- let's accept that and shed some light on the tragedy that is still happening in New Orleans.
CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2007
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The melodies meander but return to touchstone refrains, and the ever-present percussion drive them onward.
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And the reason why he has such a great following in the West, more generally, is he speaks unaccented English, and he has sort of these touchstones, these cultural touchstones that he's able to reach out and grab people with.
Raised In America And Aligned With Al-Qaida
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Job security has become the touchstone of a good job for many employees.
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Nonetheless, Wonder Woman remains a touchstone of popular culture, a symbol of feminism and an enduring piece of psychology history.
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Until relatively recently, the Japanese car industry was the touchstone of international success.
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The Texas senator had hoped to hound the frontrunner on his erratic record on touchstone conservative issues.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until relatively recently, the Japanese car industry was the touchstone of international success.
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Wherever I played football, the huge gaunt stadium was always the touchstone of my career, the place where I came home to show my people that I could still do the job.
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Which is why this touchstone of the Romantic ballet repertoire is as alive today as it was 160 years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was an intellectual and moral touchstone, of matchless integrity, selflessly public-spirited and civic-minded in a way that is harder and harder to find.
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But these terms, profoundly limiting as they are, are actually touchstones that disputants in the periodical debate would recognize.
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Love is the touchstone of virtue.
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In the background, Ross greets Celia and Touchstone, and their mutual friends CORY, a stoner in baggy clothes, and SYLVIA, a grungy dyke who sports dreads and an army shirt.
Archive 2010-02-01
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That was his political touchstone, his point of reference, the rock upon which he built everything else.
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That subdominant-over-dominant IV-over-V sound (in chord symbols, either G11 (add9) or F/G) is one of the touchstones of gospel.
Our Prayer
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Some have fledgling campaigns in place while others are raising their profile by speaking out on touchstone Conservative issues.
The Sun
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Like Lincoln's, its touchstone is the common good of the nation, not the sovereign self.
On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position
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Vegas has been a touchstone for a while of squalid stupid behavior, and the “what happens in Vegas” catch-phrase/marketing gimmick is definitely one of those things that has national saturation.
THE HANGOVER Unrated Blu-ray Review – Collider.com
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The touchstone of a contract is the notion of equality.
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The touchstone is this Rolling Stone postmortem of the battle over Caliornia’s Proposition 8, which concludes that the anti-gay amendment could have been defeated, but for a signally inept campaign waged by its opponents.
But Dude, They’re WRONG
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While this too obviously underscores the presumed multivalence of the play itself, it serves as an elusive touchstone for the characters’ changing view of themselves.
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Considerations on the French Revolution would become a touchstone for the liberals under the Bourbons.
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It's a caper film, with all the obligatory touchstones of the genre and everyone underacts to great effect.
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The touchstone was whether the fairness of the trial required that.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until relatively recently, the Japanese car industry was the touchstone of international success.
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His reference to the Cold War as his touchstone gives him away.
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As important as Africanus or Caesar in the history of the Republic, Sulla was a touchstone both for the popular and the optimate party.
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The touchstone of a great captain and team management is the ability to make big decisions.
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Alas, filmmaker Chris Columbus does not appear to tweet (I checked), so we must for now remain bereft of his feelings concerning Leonard, Sheldon, Wolowitz, and Raj’s tradition of celebrating “Columbus” Day by watching the Columbus-penned generational touchstonesGoonies, Gremlins, andYoung Sherlock Holmes — probably the nicest Columbus Day joke evermade about theHome Alone director, in fact.
'Big Bang Theory': Raj, deported? Sheldon to the rescue! | EW.com
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Love is the touchstone of virtue.
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High level knowledge workers in the future are likely to combine Monitor110 for what we call feed reading today with something like SystemOne for a CMS and Touchstone for alerts.
A look inside the Monitor110 research suite
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An article in a foreign journal becomes a touchstone and then a norm, unless it is torn asunder by some path-breaking discovery.
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Calamity is man’s true touchstone.
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As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries man.
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An article in a foreign journal becomes a touchstone and then a norm, unless it is torn asunder by some path-breaking discovery.
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He has been a guiding beacon in my professional life and a touchstone of human integrity.
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Love is the touchstone of virtue.
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The tragedy became a touchstone issue in last year's presidential election.
Times, Sunday Times
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We see the standard touchstones - the Wailing Wall, the Dome of the Rock - but we also see the streets, Jerusalem as a town, a city where Jews and Arabs both live.
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So what touchstone can we use to distinguish genuine from phoney forwardists?
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So what touchstone can we use to distinguish genuine from phoney forwardists?
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The touchstone sound is hip hop, but Martin has dropped the rap for a jazz scat style which recalls British singer Cleveland Watkiss.
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We had no idea the film would become the touchstone for special effects films that it is recognized to be today.
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Calamity and prisperity are the touchstones of integrity.
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Take trainers - long the touchstone in an ever-shifting street culture.
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In a sense, an extensive vocabulary appears to have mistakenly become a touchstone by which one's English proficiency is judged and assessed.
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Those are the right touchstones: breadth of mental outlook and creative imagination.
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A particular touchstone of this counterculture was jazz, particularly bebop, and its association with African American culture.
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But if "mean-spirited" is the touchstone here, we might begin with English's hit piece last Saturday, in which she blindsided Star (and star) columnist Antonia Zerbisas after apparently being prompted by the publisher, John Cruikshank, to do so.
Archive 2009-07-01
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Back in our hippie days -- I always feel as if maybe I should spell that latter word "daze" -- one of our touchstone books was Be Here Now, by Ram Dass aka Richard Alpert.
Archive 2009-07-01
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Nor has he challenged the appellant's case that the requirements of the Convention provide a touchstone for judging the rationality of his decision and the policy pursuant to which it was reached.
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The same example can be cited: in spite of producing unlimited quantities of gold, the touchstone remains the same.
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By the Second World War the toleration of COs had begun to be recognized as a touchstone of mature liberalism.
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The truth of the matter is that the current account deficit is a touchstone for the success of the Thatcher revolution.
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Touchstone looked again, then followed, fighting the nausea that rose in him, coming in waves like repeated doses of an emetic.
SABRIEL
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Such reference has been the touchstone for an assessment of trade unions over the last two decades.
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‘To touch’ in reference to fine metals such as gold refers to the touchstone used to test the purity of the metal.
