The phrase "affecting character" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how certain experiences, actions, or influences can shape or change a person's character or personality.
Example: "The challenges he faced during his childhood were crucial in affecting character and shaping the man he would become."
Alternatives: "shaping character" or "influencing character".
But the slightly nasal quality and amber colorings of his voice have their own affecting character.
Yet what makes Yeong-hye an affecting character isn't a matter of any heightened aggression or more overt struggle.
Phiona's awakening sense of her talent is the engine that drives the main plot of "Queen of Katwe" and also what makes it an affecting character study.
Peckinpah changed gears with his next film, Junior Bonner (1972), an affecting character study about a rodeo performer (McQueen) past his prime who returns to his hometown, where he hopes to gain respect by competing in a rodeo and to reconcile with his family, especially his separated parents (Ida Lupino and Robert Preston).
His portraits are affecting character studies, but it's the black-and-white photographs of cropped landscapes and buildings that are most memorable.
Yet what a delight he is in turning the hang-dog Desmond Curry into such a complete and affecting character with just a few brief appearances.
Godwin has created several deeply affecting characters.
If the production was scenically disappointing, it allowed the principals to create affecting characters.
She's also one of the most emotionally affecting characters, because she is so constantly and vehemently denying her own emotions.
Except the one in the wheelchair; I think I'd lose the sympathy vote". The play's most affecting characters are Thomasina and Septimus, who affectionately regards his pupil as the child she is.
Simon shook hands with one of the documentary's most affecting characters, an elementary-school boy who hopes to be the first in his family "to grow up and not go to prison".
