Sentence examples for Personal touchstone from inspiring English sources

Dennis Brain's concertos remain a benchmark and a personal touchstone.

For Mr. Bush, stopping at Faith Works was a personal touchstone.

Luck is a connecting thread and a personal touchstone here, symbolized by a witty combination of iconic and idiosyncratic imagery.

Peele loves "a comedy scene that makes you cry" — like the last episode of Britain's "The Office" — and cites Ricky Gervais's creation, Regional Manager David Brent, as a personal touchstone.

That recording, with its balance of beauty and terror, became a personal touchstone to which I returned again and again in the wake of the events of Sept. 11.

Liberal drama goes back, at the very least, to the early 1960's courtroom show "The Defenders," which was the creation of another playwright, Reginald Rose, whose "Twelve Angry Men" was probably a professional and personal touchstone for Mr. Sorkin.

His books were traveling companions and personal touchstones.

The review is weighed down by personal touchstones that substitute for critical investigation.

In fact, personal touchstones of faith and morality are critical to providing leadership and governance in this country.

The two main pieces — the Martino and Aaron Copland's Piano Fantasy, each nearly a half hour long — are personal touchstones.

Tuesday's panel brought together a group of people for whom "Arvo and Sofia and Alfred," as they were referred to at one point, remain personal touchstones, from the Russian pianist Vladimir Feltsman to the music publisher Hans-Ulrich Duffek. Hans-Ulrich Duffek