Sentence examples for historical touchstone from inspiring English sources

The historical touchstone of labor union existence — the balancing of asymmetric bargaining power between worker and management — is no longer in play (if it ever was) for the public servants of today.

This secret cellar in District 10 is well off the tourist track – you have to arrange for a curator to open the front door – but it's a fascinating historical touchstone.

For all his glory, Sukarno would be little more than a historical touchstone today, except that his daughter, Megawati Sukarnoputri, 54, is almost certain to succeed Mr. Wahid as president.

Between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers was a story so deep in political significance that it has remained a historical touchstone ever since; so personal in its mundane details — did Mrs. Hiss give Mrs. Chambers a lovely old linen towel to use as a diaper?

His historical touchstones are many and obvious, ranging from John Kensett in the 19th century to his near-contemporaries Fairfield Porter and Willem de Kooning.

The mystical nature of the Masters and Augusta National is often uncanny, a function of historical touchstones as bountiful as the azaleas blooming in Amen Corner.

Dining in West Harlem and the surrounding blocks may bring to mind the neighborhood's historical touchstones: soul food, gospel brunches, Dominican fare along Broadway.

This much-maligned song, with its jumbled litany of historical touchstones, may have finally graduated to relevance as a kind of unwitting comment on Google-age information overload, even if it has faded as a baby-boomer exoneration.

By Ian Crouch August 20, 2010 This week, as they have done each August since 1998, Tom McBride and Ron Nief released the Beloit College Mindset List, a pithy, gently condescending review of the historical touchstones that define this year's incoming class of college freshmen (or "first years," or whatever they're called now).

Our belief that the Constitution will deliver us from evil shows in the stories we tell one another about where our country came from and where it is headed, and in the way we use these historical touchstones to justify our fervent (and opposed) political creeds.

My view is that even if that is the case, it is still important to know something about the Christian New Testament because it is such a historical and cultural touchstone in our country.