The phrase "affects character" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how certain experiences, actions, or influences can shape or change a person's character or personality traits.
Example: "The challenges we face in life often affect character, teaching us resilience and empathy."
Alternatives: "shapes personality" or "influences character".
If "How subsidy affects character" is what he's after, the world is at his fingertips.
Paul Farnsworth's set, with its large angled mirror, is elegantly hermetic but gives little sense of the way climate affects character.
It is De Botton's contention that, "properly signposted" (whatever that may mean), the rent arrears report would stand revealed as "part of a hundred-year debate about whether welfare lends its recipients dignity … a single episode in a multi-chaptered narrative that might be called 'How Subsidy Affects Character' [or] 'The Psychology of Aid'".
NC: Yes, I'm very interested in both the epic and the intimate, and in how the landscape affects characters.
Technology really does affect 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.
The transformation affected character states inferred for 25 species (symmetry), 134 species (fusion), seven species (phyllotaxis), 100 species (merism) and eight species (differentiation), respectively.
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.
His portraits are affecting character studies, but it's the black-and-white photographs of cropped landscapes and buildings that are most memorable.
Above all, however, this is an affecting character study of Miguel Oscar Torree), a mysterious "coyoté" with a 100% success rate smuggling immigrants across the Rio Grande River into Texas.
