Sentence examples for touchstone with from inspiring English sources

The campaign focuses on "Modern Family," the hugely popular ABC comedy, a cultural touchstone with broad, bipartisan appeal.

"Kelvin has an extraordinary touchstone with his readers, he always has, and that fantastic ability to show he is not 'one of them'," said Ferrari.

The inescapable fact of Marilyn Monroe: the blonde bombshell with a questing intelligence, the cultural touchstone with the soul of a little girl lost, the love goddess who understood that sex is a cosmic joke.

The past became the shy youth's touchstone, with its walled solidities of byre, kitchen, thorn tree, cot; of familial love "like a tinsmith's scoop/sunk past its gleam/in the meal-bin".

Johnny Giacolone's pratfalls, when he is a Touchstone with a few of the play's other yokels folded into him, are fine old-fashioned clowning but noticeably out of place here.

I have absolutely no touchstone with that, and yet they embraced me because they keyed in on the passion I feel for Spurs and the New York Yankees and Radiohead.

THE SCENE A museum of rural Americana touchstones, with pants displayed like ancient artifacts.

(Did market research turn up an allergy to modern art in likely audio-tourists?) Campbell intersperses facts and factoids about the touchstones with passages of the Met's collecting history and ritual locutions of awe.

This would certainly explain why they share many touchstones with our world, while also having two moons for the characters to gaze up at and trees willing to exact revenge.

This philosophy shares some of its intellectual touchstones with the theology of liberation in particular, indebtedness to dependency theory, as well as Catholic and Marxist ideas.

Any of us has stuff lingering on our playlist or DVD shelf that are there only because they happened to connect at the right time and place, for whatever reason; Willoughby brings those touchstones with him wherever he goes.