The phrase "on the touchstone" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use this phrase in reference to a figurative or an actual touchstone. For example, you can say: "His skills and intelligence were tested on the touchstone of academic excellence."
Yet she felt ready to take on the touchstone part of Violetta.
But Ms. Nilsson moved cautiously in taking on the touchstone dramatic soprano roles of the German repertory.
(Tommasini) ★ 'La Traviata' (Saturday) Bravely taking on the touchstone role of Violetta for the first time in this revival of Willy Decker's production at the Metropolitan Opera, the star soprano Diana Damrau scores a decisive triumph.
(Tommasini) ★ 'La Traviata' (Saturday and Wednesday) Bravely taking on the touchstone role of Violetta for the first time in this revival of Willy Decker's production at the Metropolitan Opera, the star soprano Diana Damrau scores a decisive triumph.
(Tommasini) ★ 'La Traviata' (Saturday and Tuesday) Bravely taking on the touchstone role of Violetta for the first time in this revival of Willy Decker's production at the Metropolitan Opera, the star soprano Diana Damrau scores a decisive triumph.
The metal to be assayed is rubbed on the touchstone, adjacent to the rubbing on the touchstone of a sample of a metal of known purity.
Mr. Christopher's queries to special interest groups turned up a problem for Mr. Bayh on one of the touchstone issues of the Democratic Party: abortion rights.
Lang's film, of course, went on to become one of the touchstones of 20th-century cinema, exhaustively studied and endlessly imitated, but apart from its brief theatrical run in Berlin and Nuremberg 75 years ago, the movie as Lang made it has never really been seen.
On the second floor of the Touchstone Building, part of a nondescript technology office park off a traffic-choked ring road, the government's own start-up is at work.
In her opening statement, UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman reflected on some of the touchstones of her nearly five-year tenure leading UNICEF.
Produced in 1938, with war looming, Our Town focuses on the touchstones of ordinary existence: birth, courtship, marriage and death, as experienced by the inhabitants of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire.
