Its touchstone is the autonomous individual celebrated by John Locke in. From Wordnik.com. [On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position] Reference
Like Lincoln's, its touchstone is the common good of the nation, not the sovereign self. From Wordnik.com. [On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position] Reference
It's called the touchstone and there are no connections. From Wordnik.com. [Sun Bloggers] Reference
I was likewise attracted by the Morpheus in touchstone, which is described by. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
And our view here is that, of course, the touchstone is the wish of the patient. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2005] Reference
My touchstone is the Lester Garnier case--more than you want to know about SFPD. From Wordnik.com. [San Francisco Police Story] Reference
A touchstone is a hard, black stone used to test the integrity of gold and silver, and it symbolizes our venture in a way. From Wordnik.com. [Sin in Soul's Kitchen] Reference
"The touchstone is the Met," said Susana Torruella Leval, a Met trustee who formerly served as the director of El Museo del Barrio. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
I hadn't been there since we moved to Austin so I needed that "touchstone" again. From Wordnik.com. [2001-03-27 11:48 a.m.] Reference
Hillary's fall in the CA poll numbers, is a kind of touchstone for her level of support. From Wordnik.com. [Pelosi Warns Clintonites: No "Scorched Earth" Approach] Reference
Analysts say the 10-year sale will be a "touchstone" to gauge investor demand in the new year. From Wordnik.com. [Investors Await Japan's Sale of 10-Year Debt] Reference
They keep using the city's most painful moment as some kind of touchstone to their personal fortunes. From Wordnik.com. [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference
But I read it over and over, then later on at least once a year, and it became a kind of touchstone for me. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret’s Sunday Quickie: Nudged over the edge «] Reference
I like the fact that one teen could identify a kind of touchstone to determine the stuff of which his peers were made. From Wordnik.com. [Lee Woodruff: The Dodgeball Dilemma] Reference
But I had made a kind of touchstone of it; it was to help to decide the future — that hideously uncertain future of ours!. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
So that figures to be some kind of touchstone for negotiations. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"The new approach is simple: the touchstone is the individual, not the collective. From Wordnik.com. [The First Perspective] Reference
All of us who paint from observation and make that a kind of touchstone … I mean we're very out of it. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Not if it means a concern with "touchstone" moral values to the exclusion of other deeply-held and fundamental human values. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Princetonian, 2010-03-26] Reference
In this chapter there are some passages that may serve as a kind of touchstone by which a young lady may examine the heart of her lover. From Wordnik.com. [Amelia — Complete] Reference
Someone like James Brown was a huge touchstone for us. From Wordnik.com. [Be specific: Blues Explosion's Jon Spencer on getting the band back together] Reference
But, just as with England, Rooney is the true touchstone. From Wordnik.com. [Premier League preview No13: Manchester United] Reference
For seventeen years you've been my favorite mug and a touchstone for my soul. From Wordnik.com. [Eulogy for a Friend] Reference
He has introduced his children to Camilla, 52, whom he calls his "touchstone.". From Wordnik.com. [The Single Dad And King-To-Be] Reference
As a leader, you have to recognize that you are a touchstone for people around you. From Wordnik.com. [What I Learned] Reference
Likewise, Hassell's "Power Spot" from 1986 was a touchstone for electronica performers. From Wordnik.com. [Jon Hassell Brings World Fusion To 'The Moon'] Reference
At least that's how the Marines in Fallujah -- long the touchstone of the insurgency -- see things. From Wordnik.com. [How Much Longer?] Reference
Once the touchstone of counterculture, Rolling Stone magazine has settled into the music establishment. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping Up With The Kids] Reference
It provided me with an anchor, a touchstone that became a part of myself and helped guide me through my life. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Our touchstone for that era is Gidget -- 15-year-old Kathy Kohner, who really did surf at Malibu, though not until 1956. From Wordnik.com. [Gidget Girls] Reference
But boomer humor may owe its greatest debt to Mad magazine, which, befitting such a boomer touchstone, was created in 1952. From Wordnik.com. [The Boomer Files: The Way We Laughed] Reference
But with some defining the whale hunt as a touchstone of Japanese identity, it's becoming hard for the government to compromise. From Wordnik.com. [Ecopolitics: Why Japan Risks Its Place In the World to Hunt Whales] Reference
We're about to "lose a living touchstone of history," says Bob Patrick, director of the Library of Congress's Veterans History Project. From Wordnik.com. [The War We Forgot] Reference
The speech became a touchstone for those who wanted to paint Churchill — the man who had saved the nation — as a hopeless reactionary. From Wordnik.com. [Hitler and Health Care Don’t Mix] Reference
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