Sentence examples for as a formative influence from inspiring English sources

Clementine cites Antony Hegarty as a formative influence, and certainly there are vocal similarities.

The son of a barbershop quartet singer, Mr. Fischer cited his father's preoccupation as a formative influence.

But the one designer whom she cites as a formative influence is a sunny, democratic American: the sportswear pioneer Claire McCardell.

A bit later, Picasso took him as a formative influence and thereby installed him in the boiler room of modern painting.

The Bats frequently tour there, as do indie godfathers the Clean (Bats frontman Robert Scott's other band, with whom he plays bass); Pavement's Stephen Malkmus has cited them as a formative influence.

Citing his Irish shoemaker father as a formative influence, O'Connor has set himself up – in opposition to what he suspects are prevailingly egg-headed international art trends – as a sculptor who likes to get his hands dirty.

Even if our sentimental memory of these heroic figures is nothing more than nostalgia for irrecoverable pleasures, their initial impact may be seen as having a formative influence on a child's expectations, as many commentators have thought.

Messkirch was then a quiet, conservative, religious rural town, and as such was a formative influence on Heidegger and his philosophical thought.

Perhaps, as Putnam believes, the advent of television had a formative influence on Americans growing up after 1950.

D&D was a formative influence for many of us, but one that grew as much out of a context as of what it was.

Her ethnic identity, too, has had a formative influence on her work; she grew up as the child of Chinese immigrants in an almost all-white town.