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Touchstone
"Touchstone" in a Sentence (9 examples)
The forebearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual uses it, is the test of a true gentleman.
Do not praise anyone before you hear him speak, for that is the touchstone of human beings.
"It started small," she says of the guide, which listed motels and restaurants that welcomed black travelers at a time when many businesses did not. It was a cultural touchstone to many blacks, but unknown to many others.
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The foregoing doctrine affords us also a touchstone for the trial of spirits.
"Expectation of life" is an elastic term: the touchstone here is rather the aggregate amount of work that the locomotive does during its working life.
Although there has not been very much direct treatment of the Holocaust in analytic moral philosophy, the Nazis appear again and again as examples or touchstones in the construction of moral theories.
In the print firestorm that followed the publication of the royal couple's letters, the generalissima was one polemical touchstone. The Annotations to The Kings Cabinet Opened itself depicted the queen as an enemy to king and country: […]
Brokeback Mountain did take home three Oscars, including a prestigious best director prize for Ang Lee, and remains a beloved gay touchstone.
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