"build a personality" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to develop or form someone's individual character or traits. Example: Parents play a crucial role in helping their children build a strong and confident personality through nurturing and guidance.
To build a personality cult when you have no personality is an act of myopia that borders on blindness.
It's strange Bush is trying so hard to build a personality from scratch, since by most accounts he had a pretty good one going into the primary race.
Ignited within me was a desire to build a personality for her, to perform as her, to present myself as if I was her.
The party machine's attempt to build a personality cult around her fell at an obvious hurdle: first, you need a personality.
The North's news media, all controlled by the state and the government's main tool of indoctrination, started a widespread campaign to build a personality cult around Kim Jong-un, glorifying the family's dynastic rule.
Mr. Xi's appearances on Friday were another major effort in his campaign to build a personality cult that equates him with the well-being of the party and the nation.
When I first started Suzanne's Files I didn't set out to build a personality-driven business; I was simply impassioned by finding the best and leaving the rest -- and wanted to share my finds with as many people as possible.
North Korea has built a personality cult around the ruling Kim family, building numerous monuments for Kim Il-sung and inscribing rocks and cliffs with gigantic messages praising the Kim family.
On top, it has built a personality cult around Mr Ortega.Sandinists used to dismiss the scandal as a political, even CIA, plot.
Over time her poems, translated by, among others, Andrea Deletant and Brenda Walker, gained a notable following abroad.Romania's leader from 1965, a cobbler-turned-Communist called Nicolae Ceausescu, shook his country free of Soviet control, but built a personality cult based on a perverse mixture of nationalism and Communist dogma.
