Staging is one thing, words are another, and Alan Bennett is now another touchstone for Kitson comparisons, due to his home-spun pithy northern wit, though that neglects the density of Kitson's language, and his penchant for ironic locker-room banter.
Homology, in the sense of descent with modification from a common ancestor, has long served as the touchstone for comparative molecular biology (Margoliash, 1969; Zuckerkandl and Pauling, 1965a, b), and continues to provide the biological context for comparison of genome sequences and other genome-scale data (Koonin, 2005).
For comparison, consider Pacquiao.
For comparison purposes, Walt Disney Co.
For comparison, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Assn.
Joseph Ting Brisbane, Australia Gladwell uses the civil-rights movement as a touchstone for today's activism, but a better historical comparison might involve the invention of the printing press.
Gladwell uses the civil-rights movement as a touchstone for today's activism, but a better historical comparison might involve the invention of the printing press.
If entertainment is your primary touchstone – for life, for art, for loo roll – it naturally follows it also provides your go-to points of comparison.
A true matriarch, Rose was a touchstone for her family.
The book hasn't been a touchstone for women alone.
