Sentence examples for touchstone events from inspiring English sources

As the changeover to digital television was starting, government leaders and industry executives described the transition as one of those rare touchstone events that would, in time, change the lives of every American.

It's a bit insulting to theatergoers to presume that they need to be reminded of the touchstone events of those days, like starting a World War II film with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's date-of-infamy speech.

But her adventurous spirit, sophisticated looks, husky voice and glamorous association with the Kennedy White House put her on magazine covers and on televisions while opening doors to royal palaces, gala soirees, torrid romances and touchstone events of the 1960s and '70s.

There are so many factors that set this movement in motion early on, but there are some touchstone events that really helped.

The film contains nudity and partly concerns the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989, a touchstone event for many sixth-generation directors.

Inside a former home electronics store in downtown Vancouver, the 15th edition of New Forms Festival, the city's touchstone event for electronic music and multimedia art took place last October.

The festival has become a touchstone event in California and fan speculation has pinged across the Internet for months, along with a flurry of hoax lineups and posters; one apparently was convincing enough to fool the staff at (KYSR-FM) 98.7, which on Monday breathlessly reported that Radiohead and Muse would top the bill.

The fight remains a touchstone cultural event, much larger since it's an important contribution to Ali's remarkable, even singular legacy.

Technology may help make the Gettysburg battlefield and the Salem witch trials more "vivid and personal," but the tools would be irrelevant if our sense of suffering and injustice had not made these events cultural touchstones.

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Abortion was a touchstone for the most painful events of his life.