Touchstone

Definition

touchstone /'tʌtʃstǝƱn/ n မွတ္ေက်ာက္။ a touchstone of artistic excellence ❍ a touchstone by/against which later operas were judged.

Examples

1. ‘The same example can be cited: in spite of producing unlimited quantities of gold
2. the touchstone remains the same.’
3. ‘‘To touch’ in reference to fine metals such as gold refers to the touchstone used to test the purity of the metal.’
4. ‘Small black stones were used as touchstones to test the colour
5. and hence purity
6. of gold.’
7. ‘We had no idea the film would become the touchstone for special effects films that it is recognized to be today.’
8. ‘What
9. in short
10. is the touchstone by which to recognise a special class of people from members of the general public?’
11. ‘His reference to the Cold War as his touchstone gives him away.’
12. ‘We see the standard touchstones - the Wailing Wall
13. the Dome of the Rock - but we also see the streets
14. Jerusalem as a town
15. a city where Jews and Arabs both live.’
16. ‘Ridley's treatment of the role of inheritance in the determination of intelligence and
17. more generally
18. of personality
19. will be for many readers the touchstone by which his book is judged.’
20. ‘This attitude comes mostly from the idea that American middle-class values are the touchstone from which all else should be judged.’
21. ‘An article in a foreign journal becomes a touchstone and then a norm
22. unless it is torn asunder by some path-breaking discovery.’
23. ‘Such reference has been the touchstone for an assessment of trade unions over the last two decades.’
24. ‘Nor has he challenged the appellant's case that the requirements of the Convention provide a touchstone for judging the rationality of his decision and the policy pursuant to which it was reached.’
25. ‘That was his political touchstone
26. his point of reference
27. the rock upon which he built everything else.’
28. ‘But these terms
29. profoundly limiting as they are
30. are actually touchstones that disputants in the periodical debate would recognize.’
31. ‘In a sense
32. an extensive vocabulary appears to have mistakenly become a touchstone by which one's English proficiency is judged and assessed.’
33. ‘Our writings serve as the academy's benchmarks
34. the ethical touchstones for the noblest of professions.’
35. ‘I would have thought ID cards are a pretty fundamental issue if not a touchstone of liberal credentials.’
36. ‘We are
37. after all
38. introduced to him in the first stanza through his tastes
39. the touchstones he cannot lay aside and by which he judges all else.’
40. ‘Considerations on the French Revolution would become a touchstone for the liberals under the Bourbons.’
41. ‘By the Second World War the toleration of COs had begun to be recognized as a touchstone of mature liberalism.’