Sentence examples for as the touchstone from inspiring English sources

The place serves as the touchstone for the entire movie.

Ever since, practical politicians have used "electability" as the touchstone.

It could also serve as the touchstone for comfort food.

The studio nude obsessed him both in principle — as the touchstone of artistic competence — and personally.

Clarke added: "The United Kingdom has chosen recordable offences as the touchstone.

Yes: it is his replacement of design with art as the touchstone of his architecture.

Higher-level theories are thus understood in parallel to historicist large-scale research traditions as guiding inquiry and as the touchstones by which the evidential impact of learned propositions on theory are measured.

As long as quantity remains the touchstone of achievement in so many institutions, there will never be equality of opportunity.

"We also knew that people intuitively saw 'One Person, One Vote' as being the touchstone of a democratic electoral system - everyone from the suffragettes, to the civil rights movement, to the Labour modernisers had campaigned for equal votes.

That glamorous Russian soprano appeared as scheduled in the touchstone role of Elvira.

As any patient knows, the touchstone of a good doctor is the ability to feel one's heart.