Sentence examples for constitute the touchstone from inspiring English sources

James's more permissive view initially a commentary on Clifford presented to the Philosophy Clubs of Yale and Brown, then published as "The Will to Believe" in 1896 has become a kind of companion piece, and together the two essays constitute the touchstone for subsequent discussion.

Tinkerbirds constitute the genus Pogoniulus.

"Yosemite," she wrote, "is the very crucible and touchstone for American landscape, and I thought that if I could understand what happened at this lake within it, I could begin to see into the peculiarities, blindnesses, raptures and problems that constitute the Euro-American experience of landscape".

These constitute the feet.

Those constituted the positives.

What, exactly, constitutes the Midwest?

It constitutes the moral self.

What, then, constitutes the future?

It constitutes the observable universe.

(This constituted the local option).

This group constitutes the cohort.