Sentence examples for a touchstone on which from inspiring English sources

And his borrowings don't even suggest an interventionist cinephilia that uses such classics as a touchstone on which to test modern mores.

And a Lichtenstein there!' They had touchstones.

The spirits of Robert Frank and William Eggleston haunt Songbook, as well as Larry Sultan's seminal series Evidence, which Soth cites as a touchstone.

U.S. officials have put too much emphasis on holding elections as a touchstone for which governments to support, he said, adding, "I've been critical of the president a lot here.

This is obviously the touchstone on which the book stands or falls, and for my money it succeeds absolutely.

It has less to do with the state's interests in promoting childbearing — a touchstone to which the Prop.

Though deeply entangled in politics and industrial policy, the Yukos case, the first of several instances in which petroleum assets were seized by the Putin government, also became a touchstone on fundamental issues of rule of law.

But the metal is something of a touchstone on the supply side, too.

With the novel a sensation and a touchstone on a scale that frightened her, Lee retreated to Monroeville.

They also kick off Carnegie's season, a touchstone on the New York concert calendar.

Absent experience, reason is without a touchstone through which hypotheses can be refuted.