touchstone in English
Small black stones were used as touchstones to test the colour, and hence purity, of gold.
Use "touchstone" in a sentence
1. Calamity is man’s true touchstone.
2. The touchstone of the relationship is commercial.
3. Love is the touchstone of virtue.
4. 15 Calamity is man’s true touchstone.
5. Motherhood is seen as a touchstone of female identity.
6. Confession remained the touchstone of guilt or innocence.
7. The Touchstone maintains the weather on this planet.
8. It is a touchstone for legal definitions and rulings.
9. As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries man.
10. Until relatively recently, the Japanese car industry was the touchstone of international success.
11. Speaking the truth , it is the touchstone of potters'skills in throwing.
12. He then makes consensibility, leading to consensus, the touchstone of reliable knowledge.
13. It was this discovery, the touchstone test, that made reliable coinage possible.
14. They tend to regard grammar as the touchstone of all language performance.
15. Most people think of the federal government as a touchstone of anti-discrimination.
16. Job security has become the touchstone of a good job for many employees.
17. We have to set this machine from here to track the Touchstone.
18. The Touchstone was a small pebble that could turn any common metal into pure gold.
19. Dean has been a touchstone of many television shows, films, books and plays.
20. Happily, God has provided a touchstone that can be used to test new ideas.
21. He spent a whole day doing this but none of them was the touchstone .
22. The touchstone was a small pebble that could turn any common metal into pure gold.
23. This means judging all our actions – in word and deed – on the touchstone of public purpose.
24. It was a thin strip of vellum on which was written the secret of the " Touchstone " !
25. The Colonnaded axes became the touchstone by which cities competed for status in the Eastern Empire
26. My touchstone for Beethovenian profundity is the very last sonata, the Opus 111, and Say does it proud
27. Because jailers were the ones who tormented prisoners, the word derived from “touchstone” was also applied to jailers.
28. And Acumen Touchstone fully automates the schedule submission process while adhering to your company’s quality criteria, best practices and standards
29. I knew one little poem by her, when I was very small, and it became a kind of touchstone.
30. “Agrope among alien forces”: Alchemical Transformations and Capitalist Transactions in Edith Wharton’s The Touchstone Anna Girling University of Edinburgh The Touchstone (1900), the novella that was Edith Wharton’s first piece of published long fiction, is not one of the author’s many ghost
31. Tested against the touchstone of Scripture, his speculations would reduce the Bible to the size of a slim paperback.
32. I have believed that since my earliest days, and I have used it as a touchstone in all my leadership endeavors.
33. Through Marmura’s skill as a translator and his extensive annotations, Avicenna’s touchstone of Islamic philosophy is more accessible than ever before.
34. Gyllenhaal later starred in the Touchstone Pictures romantic comedy Bubble Boy, which was loosely based on the story of David Vetter.
35. The truth of the matter is that the current account deficit is a touchstone for the success of the Thatcher revolution.
36. “Casablanca” is an enduring classic, a cultural touchstone that has several memorable lines that are now part and parcel of the popular American culture, such as the subject one
37. As the present Cahiers editor Stéphane Delorme remarks: ‘Ontological realism is the sole touchstone of Bazin’s thought and Cahiers’ thought; without that, everything collapses’.
38. According to Penelope Green, Koren's book subsequently "became a talking point for a wasteful culture intent on penitence and a touchstone for designers of all stripes."
39. A touchstone for current discussions of Commonness and rarity is the scheme by Rabinowitz (1981), who pointed out that there are actually many forms of rarity (Table 1A)
40. The initial script of Enchanted, written by Bill Kelly, was bought by Disney's Touchstone Pictures and Sonnenfeld/Josephson Productions for a reported sum of $450,000 in September 1997.
41. Contact with the stage, almost throughout its history, presents itself as a kind of touchstone, to bring out the Bizarrerie, the theatrical tricks and contrasts, of the actual world
42. For the Ballyhoo has become a touchstone for thousands of Indiana State students, alumni, and local residents, who, despite where their respective roads have lead, can always find their way back home to the Ballyhoo when they, themselves, need to be found
43. Drawing on his Gaelic roots, soft rock, blue-eyed soul and r&b, Apotheosizing both the religious and the romantic, this very much recalls Moondance in feel and style; its aural grace and candor harkening back to why Moondance was such a touchstone
44. The optick glasse of humors or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper: wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth and their externall intimates laid open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge, of what complection he is, and Answerably learne