Sentence examples for in touchstone from inspiring English sources

A SURPRISE highlight of the Metropolitan Opera season was the double triumph of the charismatic 41-year-old German tenor Jonas Kaufmann in touchstone roles of the Italian and French repertories.

Mr. Cusack, who spent the '80s growing up before audiences' eyes in touchstone movies like "Sixteen Candles," "Better Off Dead" and "One Crazy Summer" (before graduating to more mature films like "Eight Men Out," "Say Anything" and "The Grifters"), generally isn't in a hurry to revisit that phase of his career.

Fellow European maestro Mario Vargas Llosa has some more political and sporting essays in Touchstones (Faber).

Each residue in TOUCHSTONE-II is represented by its Cα, Cβ, and the side-chain center of mass (the CABS model [ 12]).

His knowledge may have influenced the playwright, who produced some of the best-known fools in literature: Touchstone in As You Like It; Feste in Twelfth Night; and the fool in King Lear.

Several classic recordings offer glorious singers in these touchstone roles.

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

In September Touchstone plans to choose one or more of the top 50 book manuscripts on offer for publication.Show business may gain even more than publishing does.

Intel, together with a consortium of federal agencies, has invested more than twenty-seven minlion dollars in the Touchstone Delta, a five-foot-high, fifteen-foot-long parallel supercomputer that sits in a computer room at Caltech.

When docked in its TouchStone inductive charger, the TouchPad doubles as a clock, mail reader, and photo viewer.

Even if such writers tend to proceed with more confidence in the touchstone of rationality than did the classical existentialists, their work operates on the terrain opened up by the earlier thinkers.