Sentence examples for a key touchstone from inspiring English sources
The phrase "a key touchstone" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to an important standard or criterion by which something is judged or evaluated. Example: "In evaluating the success of the project, customer satisfaction will be a key touchstone for our team."
Destiny was a key touchstone for most of the panel, who recognised the compelling brilliance of combining role-playing and shooting mechanics into one package.
Before I got bored and disillusioned by the small project (what's the point, really?) I'd come up with Melville's inscrutable ginger-nut eating scrivener in "Bartleby," a key touchstone in the grand tradition of office-work existentialism in American culture.
Mutko oversees another empire of Russian symbolism: shaped by the vaguely fascistic aims of the Stalin era and the intensely political competition of Cold War Olympics, Russian sports remains a key touchstone of Russian identity.
As Pound suggested, they also provided grist for his own work, beginning with the 1952 collection "A Mask for Janus". The book drew from ancient myth — a key touchstone for Graves as well — and was selected by Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Prize.
A huge success on its release in 1978, Grease remains a key cultural touchstone and its soundtrack, with hits such as Hopelessly Devoted to You, Summer Nights and You're the One That I Want, is one of the bestselling albums of all time.
Along with a host of other cult and alternative influences percolating into the mainstream, its presence was widely felt by the late 1990s, from the west's embrace of Pokémon fever, to tabloid moral panics, to the obvious visual transfusion received by The Matrix – which became the key touchstone for the next decade of Hollywood actioners.
The rococo, particularly Fragonard's erotic confections, and Mitchell, are two key touchstones in the dense array of historical references Teplin brings into play.
They want to be in control of one of the key touchstones of modern life.
In addition to regional Mexican music, strains of the global bass underground such as hardstyle, ballroom, juke, hip-hop, and dancehall are key touchstones.
NR: Playing at the Rum Runner was a touchstone, a key moment for us.
It's unlikely that Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita has created many paedophiles, but – as novelist David Lodge pointed out – it played a key role in the war against censorship, and has been a touchstone for literary stylists ever since.
