touchstone

Example Sentences

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Film and flight are still touchstones of adventure and possibility, after all.

From Los Angeles Times

The end of Netflix’s oddball-to-blockbuster series marks the end of an era, and surely the last generational touchstone to come out of series television.

From Los Angeles Times

The stars’ portrayal of a loving father-daughter relationship is one of the show’s major touchstones.

From Salon

But he prospered in tandem with Mr. Trump’s presidency, as the New York real estate tycoon made frank nativism and seething cultural resentment the primary touchstones of conservative politics.

From New York Times

He attended the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles at a moment when Josiah Bartlet, the loquaciously liberal president on the popular television show “The West Wing,” was a cultural touchstone.

From Los Angeles Times