Sentence examples for common touchstone from inspiring English sources
To this day a supper club meal remains the common touchstone for me and my far-flung siblings whenever we pay a visit to my parents in Wisconsin.
But who knows?Equally, I once thought it was the prerogative of Balkan politicians to reach back several hundreds of years to justify their actions today: the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 is a common touchstone for Serbs.
To put this in familiar terminology of our common cultural touchstone, Star Wars: In 2008, the Democrats made the election all about The New Hope.
While it would be ridiculous to broadstroke an entire generation of Americans and argue that those who grew up during the same time period turned out roughly the same way -- sure there may be common cultural touchstones, but personal experience always matters more -- there's still something undeniably weird about tagging Paul Ryan as "Gen X".
"A minivan is a box," Mr. Schreyer conceded, before noting what it had in common with a touchstone of chic.
Juries serve an important role in our society, as a check on lawyerly zeal and as a touchstone of common sense.
Mark Benton's Touchstone is an earthy, common-sensical clown who makes good use of live actors scrambling around as woolly sheep to point up the danger of earning a living "by the copulation of cattle".
Homology, in the sense of descent with modification from a common ancestor, has long served as the touchstone for comparative molecular biology (Margoliash, 1969; Zuckerkandl and Pauling, 1965a, b), and continues to provide the biological context for comparison of genome sequences and other genome-scale data (Koonin, 2005).
If you grew up in the 1990s, there are a few cultural touchstones you'll have in common with other children of that era.
And since they're positioning the Pre in the rather precarious "bargain luxury" market, it makes sense to imbue the Touchstone, made as it is from common pieces, with the same cachet found in the Pre.
