formative experience

But his most artistically formative experiences may have come years before.

"This is someone who generally had his formative sexual experiences with young boys in an institution of some kind."

On the face of it, his wife, Jean, had a very different formative experience.

It is a really formative experience for young people to be sharing rooms with kids from other countries.

You are about to set out on an interesting and formative experience, something that is likely to have a major impact on your life.

Later he said that learning how the two cultures thought was a highly formative experience.

It really is the proper beginning of the person's formative experience.

"It was the formative experience of my life," he says.

Their young formative experiences were similar to the first generation.