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Example sentences for: touchstone

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Perhaps Clinton's enemies needn't bother laboring to make the Lewinsky mess the touchstone of his presidency.
Burne-Jones' lovers seem always in freeze frame, like the frustrated couple in that Pre-Raphaelite touchstone, Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn": "Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss,/ Though winning near the goal."
For Bin Ladin's confrontation with the Saudi regime, see, e.g., Peter L. Bergen, Holy War Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Ladin (Touchstone, 2001), pp. 80-82.
That Star Wars should turn out to be a kind of cultural touchstone for many people is likely to be mysterious to the many people for whom it is not a cultural touchstone.
As it happens, The Insider was made by Touchstone, which is a subsidiary of ...