Sentence examples for to the touchstone from inspiring English sources

The short speech was no disaster, but it was notable for its absence of any reference to the touchstone issues that appeal to the evangelical right.

In his conversations on foreign policy, sooner or later Mr. Kerry returns to the touchstone of his early adult life, Vietnam.

Some listeners, though, might consider it more favorably, perhaps as the blueprint for a movie script they could sell to the Touchstone division of Disney, updating "Some Like It Hot" by crossing "Tootsie" with "Any Given Sunday".

Whether or not Rainer — who is best known as a choreographer and dancer — studied Ford's dramas and comedies, she develops their premises of history put to the touchstone of personal experience, and personal experience viewed in the light of history.

The Court emphasized the fact that, unlike Article 19(3) of the Constitution of India which provides that the right to fetter the freedom of speech and assembly is subject to the touchstone of reasonableness, Singapore's Article 14(2) does not contain the word reasonable.

In the language of Redish (1994, p. 802), these themes are equivalent to the "touchstone problems" of physics, problems "students will come back to over and over again in later training.

She found the look backward to the touchstones of our shared history refreshing.

But the unfussy directness of Mr. Gerima's filmmaking also harks back to the touchstones of mid-20th-century European art cinema, "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "Wild Strawberries" — intimate dramas showing how the past invades and defines the present.

They run back to the touchstones of civic identity, not just to what they ate at Plymouth.

In Common Sense, Thomas Paine could urge readers of that time to take their recent experiences of monarchy "to the touchstones of nature" and decide whether they would abide the empire's abuses.

The power to say "mine"; the power to control and manipulate images and ideas in the present; the power to claim the touchstone authority of the past; the power to advertise power.