Sentence examples for touchstone of quality from inspiring English sources

These artists helped found the medium of film and created film grammar in an era of astonishing productivity from the 1910s to the '60s/'70s that is still the touchstone of quality for every generation of filmmakers since.

Instantly, the firm became a touchstone of French quality and finesse.

It is the touchstone of Munch's definitive quality in his great years: a self-abnegating submission to emotional truth.

This inner quality of authority invokes the touchstone of certainty by which we know first-hand that we're alive.

Mr. McCarthy cited the department's continued emphasis on quality-of-life crimes, which Commissioner Kelly has stressed will be a touchstone of his crime-fighting strategies as he focuses on preventing and investigating terrorism as well.

A touchstone of your intelligence," she said.

A touchstone of modernity itself".

So does Amway, that touchstone of American living-room marketing.

The trilling adverbs are a touchstone of Stewart's style.

Coherence was the touchstone of this performance.

Fay is the touchstone of this perspective.