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

For social media influencers, for whom cachet is so valuable, it made sense before the war to use the language that many viewed as a cultural touchstone.

From New York Times

And there are those overlooked albums and artists whose work was too idiosyncratic to fully break through during their first moment in the sun but wind up as shining cultural touchstones.

From Los Angeles Times