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1 The day produced yet another cultural touchstone, the form of hacked movie studio e-mails that threw into sharp relief the uphill battle faced by films such as “Selma” in a white-dominated industry.

2 Her work has appeared on film before; Pedro Almodóvar’s “Talk to Her” uses the dance “Café Müller” as an emotional touchstone.

3 Surrealism and Cubism are touchstones here and figurative painting dominates.

4 The show, a mixture of science fiction, fantasy and horror, has attracted attention for its use of popcorn cinema touchstones.

5 Which would have been great, were it not for the fact that the century-old Edgar Rice Burroughs novel it was based on wasn't the universal cultural touchstone that Stanton thought it was.

6 Karen Finley, who became a national touchstone of controversy for her performance art involving nudity and, yes, yams, recalled Mr. Saban as a tireless champion of young artists, both in print and in person.

7 The show’s most distinctive characteristic is its attempt to eschew linear storytelling and its refusal to supply the expected touchstones.

8 The team went on to produce another generational touchstone, “My So-Called Life,” and, most recently, “Nashville.”

9 Family mottoes, touchstones, prayers of sorts, they boasted of honor and glory, promised loyalty and truth, swore faith and courage.

10 A man's deed is the touchstone of his greatness or littleness.

行动是一个人伟大或者渺小的试金石.

11 But Beethoven’s formidable “Hammerklavier” is a touchstone work that even some master pianists have been wary of.

12 Calamity is man's true touchstone.

患难是的试金石.

13 Lesley Gore, who was a teenager in the 1960s when she recorded hit songs about heartbreak and resilience that went on to become feminist touchstones, died on Monday in Manhattan.

14 That red box became a childhood touchstone, she writes, the way Dahl’s books have been for children with less wonderful grandfathers.

15 "It's just a cultural touchstone for all of us to represent a decadent place with power, money, glamour, sex, crime."

16 According to John, it’s Harry’s spirit of playful innovation that provides the store’s touchstones: change and fun.

17 Before “Fiddler on the Roof” became a Broadway classic and cultural touchstone, it was just a pretty bad idea.

18 All of them are part of a singular and powerful tradition of mother symbolism, with their own reference points and cultural touchstones.

19 I set out to devise a scaled-down menu for beginners — or anyone who wants to achieve the same flavor touchstones without doing more work than necessary.

20 You hold onto them, because they become touchstones of empathy, reminders of the vulnerability and sincerity that are the building blocks of the mature self.

1 标准

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2 检验标准

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5 试金石

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