Sentence examples for formative background from inspiring English sources

These off-mainstream portraits signaled Frost's departure from the old tradition and his own fresh interest in delineating New England characters and their formative background.

These details of nature provided a formative background for Kant's interest in natural philosophy, and the child grew up in an encouraging environment for early explorations.

Formative (form).

But the experience turned out to be formative, giving her a background in budgeting and other skills that allowed her to become a successful banker and then a financial planner at Merriman Berkman Next in Seattle.

The teacher guide of the CATs also provided some general background information about formative assessment and the characteristics of CATs.

Anyone who openly discussed race relations was quickly viewed as a 'troublemaker.'" Still, two race riots during her childhood in 1942 when the Sojourner Truth housing project was desegregated, and one the following year on Belle Isle made up what Shabazz later called the "psychological background for my formative years".

But political commentator Li Datong suggests this "double background" has proved genuinely formative for princelings such as Xi and might even lead them to bolder policy-making.

In that context, the rise of Snapchat among the under-twenty-five set, who have spent their formative years with Facebook looming in the background, is wholly unsurprising.