Cultural touchstones and shared experience can also be shibboleths of a sort. I love the dark cultural touchstones this series explores. Something just feels off in Khaled's traditional manner of creating ubiquitous pop cultural touchstones. Frogs and wombles are rhetorical touchstones bearing considerable weight. Nonetheless, these early experiences remained touchstones. In their different ways George Douglas and Adam Woodcock were judged admirable as moral touchstones. Few are the theatergoers who will be familiar with all of Miranda's touchstones. Their touchstones were the forms of classical art. Throughout their disagreements, they still stayed close, remaining each other's touchstones.