Sentence examples for touchstone my from inspiring English sources

With my children and my family as my touchstone, my priorities are clear.

My touchstone is my beloved hometown of Yamhill, Ore., population about 925 on a good day.

Last week, Chelsea football fans who refused Souleymane S entry to their Paris train carriage on the grounds of his skin colour shocked us in equal measure – this story reminded me of the racist attacks I experienced in my youth, which were the touchstones my former role models exploited in my radicalisation to Islamism in the 1990s.

I'm sure we saw our fair share of Disney cartoons, and of course "Star Wars" was my preteen touchstone, but my earliest movie memories almost all involve terrifying monsters of all kinds.

One of my favourite ever films, a touchstone in my life, is Godard's Masculin Féminin, shot by Willy Kurant in a grainy, rather flattened B&W.

In the time that interceded, she remained my touchstone, always in my thoughts, as I experienced the usual outrages, triumphs and diversions.

It's a touchstone in my life because obviously it changed my life".

I believe in God, the Bible is a core touchstone of my life, and I strive to live my life in accordance with the Bible's precepts, commandments and values.

"He was the touchstone for my generation," he said.

That poem has remained a touchstone of my emotional life.

That's where I go back to as a touchstone for my writing," he says.