Touchstones in a sentence

Finding touchstones to connect this story to the rest of the series was pretty crucial, and it required me to do a little psychology on myself.

It is a perfect playground for ideas and symbolism, with Western tropes being familiar cultural touchstones that can easily be subverted to get the audience to ponder the more significant questions in life.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday opened his state of the union speech in Moscow with familiar touchstones, including ridding the world of Nazism and liberating Ukraine’s Donbas region.

The cinematic touchstones are just as obvious elsewhere in the program, which isn’t necessarily a negative.

Amid today’s economic inequality, partisan ecosystems, and the decline of shared cultural touchstones like mainstream media, this compounding disparity has given rise to an ecosystem of Black influencers who — surprise!

During that famous run of films from the late 70s to late 80s, John Carpenter made so many stone-cold classics, cult classics, and pop culture touchstones that it seems criminal he’s not revered in the same manner a Spielberg or Scorcese are.

This phenomenon details a broader issue in contemporary, post-9/11 culture: our collective inability to generate new cultural touchstones of such magnitude since the turn of the century.

Berk’s criteria for quality in Animal Crossing interiors is simple: design skills, themes, furniture and lighting — similar to his design touchstones in Queer Eye.

Luxury touchstones such as leather seats are extra, but there are still plenty of standard and optional features to feel the Mercedes’ touch.

With brand new interviews and exclusive first-time ever reveals, each installment will look to further explore everything people only thought they knew about these touchstones in judicial history.

Embedded in Biden’s medal story are the touchstones of his long career: foreign policy expertise, patriotism and perseverance through grief.

We’ve unearthed movie art, props and other fan touchstones from the major nerd franchises of the last 50 years.

While the piece hasn’t been staged on this scale and with these orchestration in America for over 80 years, “The Sorceress” produced cultural touchstones that are still present in Yiddishkeit.

His background is Sicilian, his wife is Thai and Laotian, and he uses all of these cultures as touchstones for thoughtful dishes that are meticulously executed.

Leaving such traces can be challenging because architecture and design schools conform to a Eurocentric education, Okwumabua said, but recent cultural touchstones like the popular film Black Panther with its fictional African city Wakanda offer hope.

She offers detailed and thoughtful expectations and necessary touchstones of each assignment.

With production credits going to Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, this Apatow-esque adult comedy hits all the touchstones: gross-out gags, hit-and-miss improvised lines, and a pinch of true human pathos.

All Hallows 18 (1998); in Howard's Touchstones: Essays on the Fantastic.

The Dark Knight Returns was a financial success and has since become one of the medium's most noted touchstones.