The phrase "is formative of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that shapes or contributes to the formation of something else. For example, "The environment you grow up in is formative of your development as an individual."
"We tend to think of the practices of academic life... as only disciplines of the mind, and in fact... they're formative of who you are as a person," says Professor Anne Monius.
"We tend to think of the practices of academic life... as only disciplines of the mind, and in fact... they're formative of who you are as a person," says Divinity School Professor Anne Monius.
Republican life is then thought to be formative of the public spirit on which it rests.
Second, human beings are by nature political animals, because nature, which does nothing in vain, has equipped them with speech, which enables them to communicate moral concepts such as justice which are formative of the household and city-state (1253a1-18).
He therefore indicated that formal-epistemological concepts of rationality must be expanded to recognize that experience and committed actions are formative of authentic knowledge, and that reason cannot, in Cartesian manner, be monadically dislocated from its historical, sensory, experiential and voluntaristic foundations.
These structures are formative of centre identity by increasing external visibility to diverse audiences [ 2].
What were some important leadership lessons for you? A. A few things were formative for me in terms of leadership.
All these members (with the exception of GiZ) were formative members of the Health Basket Fund in 1999.
There are formative books of course, which is not the same.
