Sentence examples for seen as a touchstone from inspiring English sources

"Zoolander" is now seen as a touchstone comedy, but it was a troubled project.

However, this community has grown to over 600 members, runs and supports a high number of web-enabled events and is now seen as a touchstone for built environment social media.

The bill is also seen as a touchstone for the Sarkozy administration's policy of integration.

The bill is also seen as a touchstone for the Mr Sarkozy administration's policy of integration.

We first meet Saul emerging from incongruously leafy woodlands (Nemes has cited Elem Klimov's 1985 Come and See as a touchstone), shepherding new arrivals into the gas chambers where they will be poisoned, their bodies burned, their ashes shovelled into a river.

The sanctuary vote is being seen as a precursor to a touchstone debate at the IWC conference in Portoroz, Slovenia, over an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling last March that Japan's whaling in the Southern Ocean violated the IWC's moratorium on commercial whaling.

Other artists, like Bruce Springsteen, have recognised that and have seen Seeger as a touchstone, as someone who showed that songs were more than just making records and doing gigs.

That's one way of looking at it, but his son would also have us see him as a touchstone figure even in the era of the genome: a paragon of the empirical discipline that's the foundation of the scientific enterprise.

But the new album also highlights a shift toward original material and folky ambience by a generation of jazz singers, some of whom see Ms. Martin as a touchstone.

The real fear of those who regard embryonic research as destroying a potential human life -- and the hope of some who see it as a touchstone to overcoming many diseases -- is the sense that Mr. Bush has opened a door narrowly, and that a future Congress may blow it off its hinges.

Vaccines and antibiotics have long been seen as touchstones of medical progress.