Sentence examples for touchstone against which from inspiring English sources

This allowed it to become a giant in the sitcom genre and made it a touchstone against which others of the genre will continue to compare themselves.

This twelve-month was very possibly the high-water mark for homegrown drama, the touchstone against which all future contributions must be measured.

The man who announced his arrival on the big stage at Lord's not just by scoring 95 but "walking" when he knew he was out, was the touchstone against which other players around the world checked themselves.

Hunt's mission was clear: to destroy Labour's reputation as the champion of good healthcare, to position the Tories as standing up for patients against the system, and to highlight touchstone policies which connect with what people want from the NHS for their families.

It the touchstone by which all similar works must be judged.

It has less to do with the state's interests in promoting childbearing — a touchstone to which the Prop.

Indeed, such rights are the touchstone by which Hong Kong's fragile autonomy within Communist China is measured.

This is obviously the touchstone on which the book stands or falls, and for my money it succeeds absolutely.

And his borrowings don't even suggest an interventionist cinephilia that uses such classics as a touchstone on which to test modern mores.

Absent experience, reason is without a touchstone through which hypotheses can be refuted.

Nevertheless, this idea of a good will is an important commonsense touchstone to which he returns throughout his works.