Perhaps if more women's sport were televised, periods would come up all the time, a sort of "game of two halves" touchstone in the postmatch interview.
I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity to the mountains – Christchurch is two hours distant from the worn saddle of Arthur's Pass, the mountain village that was and is my father's spiritual touchstone, his chapel and cathedral in the wild.
It's like when tragic alcoholic David Hasselhoff rebranded himself as ironic superstar The Hoff and instantly became a bulletproof cultural touchstone.
Scope to raise and account for taxes is the touchstone of local democracy.
Think first of that historic conservative touchstone, workplace relations.
Psycho was itself the film that so emphatically answered that question in 1960 and the story of its creation – based on Stephen Rebello's enthralling 1990 account, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, and scripted by John McLaughlin – is at heart the story of a marriage, between a fat, ugly genius and the "tiny, birdlike woman" who was invigilator, confidante and touchstone to his talent.
The widely-published picture of the Wallabies onfield celebrations in Hong Kong was iconic in that it was a touchstone for new hope of a glorious future with a group of genuinely talented young players.
"Through his unique voice and vision The Daily Show has become a cultural touchstone for millions of fans and an unparalleled platform for political comedy that will endure for years to come".
Taking on some of Labour's touchstone policy commitments, Sturgeon pledged that a team of SNP MPs would vote at Westminster to halt NHS privatisation in England, take action to end zero-hours contracts and to back an increase of £2 an hour in the minimum wage, taking it to £8.70 by 2020.
Policing remains a touchstone issue for nationalists who were embittered by the former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Mandelson's policing legislation, believing it neutered the drive to try to make the 90% Protestant RUC more acceptable to the Catholic community.
The sanctuary vote is being seen as a precursor to a touchstone debate at the IWC conference in Portoroz, Slovenia, over an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling last March that Japan's whaling in the Southern Ocean violated the IWC's moratorium on commercial whaling.
