In college, it became a defining force in my life.
The pianoless jazz quartet, with a single horn, Hall's guitar, bass, and drums, became a defining formation in Hall's career.
It became a defining production for the company and a benchmark for the staging of the plays.
The thriller, based on a 1915 novel by John Buchan, also became a defining film in Hitchcock's career.
Over the course of his long career Tezuka became a defining force in shaping the genre, publishing more than 700 manga running to more than 150,000 pages.
But far more than his predecessors, historians and politicians say, his toughness edged toward ruthlessness and became a defining aspect of his mayoralty.
Crisis, in fact, became a defining element for more than one artist's work in the Eastern Bloc -- which has only strengthened the concept of art's need to respond.
Race and racism scar all advanced nations, but America is peculiar because slavery thrived internally and race became a defining feature of personal identity.
Along with tax cuts, the antiterror fight and the invasion of Iraq, the "faith-based initiative" became a defining policy of the Bush administration.
The parent album Dare (1981) became a defining artefact of the early 1980s, a sleek electronic masterpiece which has influenced several pop artists.
His contribution was consistently assertive, and, in the dark meditation of "9/11" (apparently a new piece) and the twelve-bar blues "Turnaround," a version of Coleman's 1959 classic "Turnabout," it became a defining presence.
