Sentence examples for touchstone by from inspiring English sources

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

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

They become the touchstone by which everything else is measured, an unconditional physical reality that cannot be ignored but can, the play suggests, be transcended.

If she carries on in this vein, she will be hailed as the new Dorothy Parker, whose judgment of Benito Mussolini's The Cardinal's Mistress – "this is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly; it should be thrown with great force" – remains the touchstone by which other hatchet wielders should be judged.

Such conclusions seem at variance with Pinker's claim that evolutionary psychology "can help lead the way to a realistic, biologically informed humanism…[and] offer a touchstone by which we can identify suffering and oppression wherever they occur…" (Pinker 2002, xi).

Records like "Remain in Light" by Talking Heads and "Sandinista!" by the Clash were cited as touchstones by nearly all the artists interviewed.

In a sense, the success or failure of the Council depended on this document, for many people, including almost every one of the Protestant observers and the American bishops, regarded a strong statement on behalf of religious liberty as one of the touchstones by which the Council would be judged.

The prospective departure of the D.I.A.'s touchstones by Jan van Eyck, Fra Angelico, Bellini, Titian, Rembrandt, Velásquez, Brueghel, Goya, Cézanne, and van Gogh — merely to sample the starry list of possible sacrificial victims — thus suggests intolerable violence to the very soul of Detroit's suffering body.

Higher-level theories are thus understood in parallel to historicist large-scale research traditions as guiding inquiry and as the touchstones by which the evidential impact of learned propositions on theory are measured.

The issue has been highlighted as the conflict's touchstone issue by many of Britain's mass-circulation newspapers and by the families of dead soldiers.

So starts "Naked Lunch," the touchstone novel by William S. Burroughs.