formative

The time spent with America’s best miler was formative for Magness.

You include a story about a poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, really affecting you in your formative years.

All my formative years, I spent standing next to Jay [Z] or Justin [Timberlake] or all those kings.

For a generation of moviegoers, there are few filmmakers more influential during one's formative years than Rob Reiner.

The Scopes Trial was a formative moment for modern creationism.

The correlation is especially robust in the lower grades, when students are in their formative years.

Politically they have been neglected, until the Citizens' Union gave them a formative part in political decisions.

If children are not in schools, they are yet subject to influences that are formative of character.

Consequently, we find that behind all systems of primitive religion lies the formative background of natural phenomena.

In its literal sense Bildung implies a shaping and formative action.

This was the boy that for the last four years we had considered as a great example of the formative influences of the school!