Sentence examples for essential touchstone from inspiring English sources

This book will serve as an essential touchstone in the ongoing inquiry into what it means, or should mean, to be an environmental citizen.

These should be familiar to people and can provide an essential touchstone as you try to navigate among stakeholders with deeply divided opinions.

Mrs. Romney's newly higher profile, those close to her said, is the natural extension of the private role she has long played as her husband's inseparable partner and essential touchstone.

In her lectures she expounds movingly on one of Gorky's greatest paintings, "Portrait of the Artist and His Mother" (1928-36), which the film portrays as an essential touchstone to Armenian cultural identity.

In the process, they enjoyed a period of prominence, but they also became the target of criticism from neo-Turnerian historians who reacted against the New Western Historians' negativist interpretation and who continued to see Turner's work as the essential touchstone for further understanding the American character.

Understanding Your Suicide Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart, by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. (Companion Press, 2009).

As Sean Nelson wrote recently in The Stranger, "Eightball became one of the essential comedic touchstones of 1990s culture, a way to help the self-selecting weirdos of the pre-internet — or at least pre-good-internet — era identify kindred spirits and speak in shorthand".

"Snapshots are essential to us as touchstones, of moments of our lives that disappear," he said, explaining why snapshots endure.

This idea of touchstones is essential to "Otherwise Known as the Human Condition" — throughout the book, certain names pop up again and again.

Berlin's experience with Akhmatova and the other Russian poets, who always "remained the gold standard, the touchstone of moral integrity" for him, stayed with him and became the essential element in his formulation of the two concepts of liberty.

STEVEN A. LUDSIN New York, July 10, 2012 To the Editor: In the accompanying graphic, "Catskill Touchstones," you refer to The Forward, America's leading independent Jewish newspaper, as essential reading of the past.