Sentence examples for touchstone I from inspiring English sources

Touchstone: "I am here with thee and they goats, as the most capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths".

With no such touchstone, I generally veer toward Mediterranean, and inevitably end up with a cross between the pan bagnat from Nice and the Catalan tomato bread with anchovy.

Metaphor or otherwise, this is not a cultural touchstone I'm interested in evoking when people see me driving on a highway alone or with a friend.

With 2015 in full swing, Kate Spencer had a great idea for this year's cultural touchstone: "I don't know about you guys but I'm ready for 2015 to be the year of the dick slip".

If you remember this movie at all — especially if you remember the hype around its status as a cultural touchstone — I'm afraid you're tilting ever so slightly (or falling at a 90-degree angle) into the category "old".

His stories are touchstones — I think of the gorgeous and heartbreaking Maples stories — and the Rabbit novels represent an achievement no one has equalled in our time.

His stories are touchstones—I think of the gorgeous and heartbreaking Maples stories and the Rabbit novels represent an achievement no one has equalled in our time.

The Braudy book is a generally dispassionate account of the making of the Boudin family and of its involvement in US radical activity – among other touchstones, I F Stone, the legendary anti-government left-wing pamphleteer, married into the family – culminating in the Brink's murder and Kathy Boudin's long incarceration.

If there are references and touchstones, I try to put those aside and make something you haven't seen before".

If there are references and touchstones, I try to put those aside and make something you haven't seen before". The success of 2010's "Animal Kingdom," first at Sundance and eventually at the Oscars (where costar Jackie Weaver got a best supporting actress nomination), was both unexpected and a career-changing experience for the 41-year-old director.

He was my touchstone, and I vowed that somehow I would find a way for us to remain together.