formative effect

At Georgetown, she had a basement apartment, "which had a formative effect on me," she said.

Chaplin's years with the Fred Karno company had a formative effect on him as an actor and filmmaker.

School and university still hadn't changed me as much as they had; maybe even the rest of my life could never compensate for their formative effect.

Education - any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual.

His Matura trip of 1937 to the Riviera, which included underwater hunting and photography, had a formative effect on him.

Judging from the precisely drawn silhouettes of windmills, the Empire State Building and other images that recur in his work, this experience had a formative effect.

His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age.

Particularly formative effects were wrought beginning in 1525 by the Crailsheims' overlordship.

The Internet thus has formative and demultiplying effects on the trade and traffic in child pornography.

Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts.