Sentence examples for whose touchstone from inspiring English sources

(His special advocacy of Mr. Hill is reminiscent of two of his peers: Jason Moran, whose touchstone is Jaki Byard, and Ethan Iverson, who swears by Paul Bley).

The book opened a new chapter in sports writing, and inspired Joseph O'Neill to write Netherland, a novel dissecting American society whose touchstone is the cricket brought by immigrants to New York.

Neither is a strong enough actor to carry the show, but Ms. Howard has a lovely voice, and so do many of the other cast members, right down to Kyle Sallee, whose Touchstone shares a delightful song with Bethany Taylor's Audrey.

Garry Wills, a cultural historian and professor emeritus at Northwestern University, is among many Catholics whose touchstone is the Second Vatican Council from 1962-65, which opened up Catholicism to the modern era and proclaimed that the church is its people, not just the pope and his bishops.

It's tougher for a chief executive; tougher still for a chief executive whose touchstone has been absolute rectitude; and toughest of all for a righteous chief executive at the media center of the world, whose loudest local papers are not the Kansas City Star or the Burlington Free Press or even the New York Times but the Daily News and the Post.

Dr. Ken Murray is a retired clinical assistant professor of family medicine at USC, whose touchstone essay on death, "How Doctors Die," has ricocheted around the Internet since it was published in 2011 on the Zocalo Public Square website.

The following year, employment on the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project brought him into contact with other ambitious young painters, whose touchstones were Parisian modernism and the Mexican muralists.

Until a senseless act of violence wrecks her affection, Erica looks back longingly at a vanished metropolis whose touchstones include Eloise at the Plaza and Sid Vicious at the Hotel Chelsea.

Then again, in full sail, she was a wonderful sight: Rod Hull's emu as styled by Salvador Dali, a human triffid who smoked Benson and Hedges, who never wore underwear and whose touchstones in life were good jewellery and high birth, and not a lot else.

(Since the first Angelico retrospective, in Florence in 1955, new attributions to the artist have come thick and fast, by the standards of art history, incidentally reducing the already doubtful status of the Late Gothic painter Gherardo Starnina, whose putative touchstone "Thebaid," a teeming narrative of a monk's travels to Egypt, now belongs to the young Angelico).

But the summer romance they described was a new friendship with James Huniford, a designer and artist whose aesthetic touchstones are agricultural, botanical and biological: belt covers and grain sifters, seed pods and fish bones.