The phrase "shape characters" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to influence or mold the development of a character in a story or narrative. Example: "The author's masterful storytelling skill brings the characters to life, effectively shaping each of their unique personalities and motivations."
She knows how to shape characters and use telling details to move the storyline.
What unites them is a wealth of research worn lightly, a sharp eye for the details that shape characters and, above all, a poet's flair for language.
Given the luxury of being in on the play's evolution, Ms. Sarandon (Maude) and Ms. Brennan Hannah Maee) had a say in the playwright's process, working with the director (Dorothy Lyman, who replaced Ms. Sarandon) to shape characters that were barely written, even getting Mr. Noonan to alter lines.
As a technical advisor on the TV series Southland, which foregrounds the lives of fictional LAPD cops, Daniel was able to help writers shape characters who make mistakes, but often in the process and belief they were doing the right thing, he says.
Zeldin's creative process is rather like Mike Leigh's: he and his cast shape characters, then find a narrative through improvisation.
Moreover, un-expected associations between grain shape characters and polymorphisms associated to the waxy locus were identified and analyzed.
We should be challenging an educational philosophy too absorbed in meeting targets to shape character.
Though cliches about children's innocence are naive, an early moral education can shape character deeper than any later dalliance in philosophy.
This withdrawal will shape character of recovery.
In Porter and Heather, Mr. Weitz, Mr. Grace and Ms. Thirlby have shaped characters who are unlikely to be widely loved in real life.
Each family can tell its own story of how it has carried that grief over the last century and how it has shaped characters and relationships in succeeding generations.
