formative influence

These formative influences continue to shape the world he designs.

Rather, the descriptions attributed to events in the past are a formative influence on her being.

International politics had come to be a formative influence on the thinking of the British labour movement.

Whistler soon lost interest in teaching art and the school shut down, but he was a formative influence.

Longo, in particular, was a formative influence on her career.

His work became a formative influence on the developing fuji style.

They were possibly the single most formative influence of my childhood.

In the following years socialism had a major formative influence on her.

Thus life at sea was a formative influence and much of his early writing is about seamen.

Armstrong's home state, Ohio, had an immense formative influence on him.