Sentence examples for touchstone is the from inspiring English sources

We watched it when we got back from shooting in South Africa, but the touchstone is the book.

A visual touchstone is the array of spheres of all sizes that represent the birth-death symbolism of the sun.

"The touchstone is the Met," said Susana Torruella Leval, a Met trustee who formerly served as the director of El Museo del Barrio.

For those raised on the New York clubs of the '70s, '80s or even '90s — whether your touchstone is the Mudd Club or Limelight — this is a startlingly healthy night life scene, in which décor trumps drugs.

The obvious touchstone is the mid-1970s periof of Mr. Springsteen, who's become an admirer of the band, joining them onstage at the Glastonbury Festival last year, offering them an opening slot on his tour and providing counsel.

In the second half of the twentieth century, a major touchstone is the Beats, particularly Allen Ginsberg's spontaneous mind poems, Jack Kerouac's unfiltered spew, and Gary Snyder's environmental consciousness.

I thought Touchstone was the coolest man I had ever seen.

The touchstone was the earliest days of the Beatles, when they spun through everything – Bakersfield country, Broadway show tunes and Motown – without skipping a beat.

"The Master" travels east — to New York, Philadelphia and England — but its geographic touchstones are the Pacific Ocean and the Arizona desert.

Given that his touchstones were the Clash and Scorsese, did he not think of writing rock songs or film scripts?

In entertainment, the touchstones are the Southern rock revivalists Kings of Leon and testosterone-charged skateboarder-influenced shows like "Jackass" and "Punk'd".