Sentence examples for shape a life from inspiring English sources

The piece suggests how a place can shape a life.

I'll stop there — I don't want to ruin the story, which is about how a single moment, a single artwork, can shape a life.

The narrator now works in a nursing home, which forces her to reflect on the shape a life takes, on everything that is evidently beyond our control.

When a man dies at 35, he is in the midst of fighting all the daily wars that shape a life.

No American poet so powerfully conveys the moral and intellectual binds that shape a life led in pursuit of making art.

The floating existence he has lived ever since is the subject of a 90-minute video meditation on the way a moral decision can shape a life, and on how that life continues to bear witness to history.

The printer began to spit out the specified shape: a life-size model of an anthemion, a floral ornament in the Greek Revival style, which would sit atop a cornice.

Of course we can't predict with certainty which forces will play major roles in shaping a life.

In other words, it is a memoir where environmental unknowns are a major force in shaping a life.

Richard's book attests to the power of words (and the Word) in shaping a life, while at the same time challenging some dearly held beliefs about memoir as a genre.

Douglass, according to many, was Exhibit A. It is difficult to call Douglass an all-women's college in any classic sense, since students are required to attend only one all-women's class, entitled "Shaping a Life".