Sentence examples for a formative memory from inspiring English sources

Perhaps, like Koerner, he has a formative memory.

Indeed, for many Britons of a certain age the Open University will be a formative memory.

"I have a formative memory of walking through the girls' line and hesitating, knowing that my clothes didn't match," Lana told me.

And through Lenú, we come to understand how something that seems small, like your best friend pushing your doll down a grate, is actually a formative memory that helps you understand your friend is a manipulative jerk.

We all are; but perhaps, eventually, the sight of the jury that believed them will be a more formative memory for the victims than that of Jerry Sandusky.

It's an unusual set of circumstances among liberal thinkers and civilised sorts, where a woman would write such a raw, unsettling formative memory only to ignite a fierce debate about whether she's lying and whether her mother is a manipulative bitch.

It's part of my generation's formative memory and it's a good time for us to do some reflection.

He has a formative early memory of hearing audience laughter, as a five-year-old at a clown show, and being "absolutely knocked out by it".

But his most formative memory comes from Jan . 12 , 1969when Mr. Benigno was a sophomore at Paramus High.

His most formative memory is of watching his much-admired father with tears streaming down his face at Churchill's funeral.

To think that so much feeling once existed behind that hollow-sounding wooden door, that an entire person's formative memories could have grown out from somewhere as blandly tangible, that so much of who I am took root within those blank brick walls seemed unlikely, if not unfathomable.