The photographs become touchstones for a family’s own experience and their own feelings.
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend publicly grieve the death of baby Jack|Ellen McGirt|October 1, 2020|Fortune
There could be many years of hopes and dreams for this baby’s existence, and to not have evidence—I use the term touchstones.
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend publicly grieve the death of baby Jack|Ellen McGirt|October 1, 2020|Fortune
This year…it is palpable how much privacy and concerns about data are becoming one of the real touchstones that are differentiating various tech companies.
Cloudflare’s privacy crusade continues with a challenge to one of Google’s big data sources|David Meyer|September 29, 2020|Fortune
That was when Morrison’s book and her reason for writing it––she said she wanted to expose “the master narrative” of America––became a personal and professional touchstone.
Book recommendations from Fortune’s 40 under 40 in government and policy|Rachel King|September 10, 2020|Fortune
When we were taping the premiere, he was the touchstone in my head of, “Am I working hard enough?”
John Oliver on ‘Last Week Tonight,’ Turning Down CBS, and ‘Nauseating’ American Politics|Marlow Stern|May 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On this, and on the variations of pain, you mentioned a passage in War and Peace that was a kind of touchstone.
Susan Minot on Africa, Joseph Kony, and the Limits of Writing About Love|Lea Carpenter|February 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hating what the Wall has become is a touchstone of identity.
Women: Talk To The Wall|Bernard Avishai|June 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Published by Touchstone Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Inside Tania Head’s Terrible 9/11 Lie: ‘The Woman Who Wasn’t There’|Robin Gaby Fisher, Angelo J. Guglielmo, Jr.|April 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He is, instead, excavating the origins of a touchstone of the contemporary political debate.
John Sayles Declares His Independence|Ben Crair|May 9, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Touchstone's question, 'Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?'
The Letters of William James, Vol. 1|William James
Whenever she applied the touchstone of character, she realized how little alloy there was in the pure gold of his nature.
Life and Gabriella|Ellen Glasgow
Touchstone alludes to a certain knight, that swore by his honour they were good pancakes.
Folk-lore of Shakespeare|Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
This little work serves me as a touchstone; he to whom it says nothing personal has probably nothing to do with me either.
Friedrich Nietzsche|Georg Brandes
Jacques was a philosopher, and Touchstone a great personage.
The Autobiography of a Clown|Isaac Frederick Marcosson
British Dictionary definitions for touchstone
touchstone
/ (ˈtʌtʃˌstəʊn) /
noun
a criterion or standard by which judgment is made
a hard dark siliceous stone, such as basalt or jasper, that is used to test the quality of gold and silver from the colour of the streak they produce on it