The phrase
"formative years" refers to the early period of one's life when they are growing and developing, both physically and mentally. These years shape a person's personality, beliefs, and behaviors, and have a long-lasting impact on their future.
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Not very prolific, yet ironically, they were the most
formative years of my gaming habits.
It is probably partly hereditary, but abuse and severe stress
during formative years also play a significant role.
In the
most formative years of your children's lives, exposing them to emotionally intelligent styles of conflict resolution is scientifically proven to do wonders for their future success.
The intermediate grades serve as
formative years for conceptual understanding of content as well as an emotional connection to math.
This idea not only opens the door to a new method of planet detection, but also could offer a look into the
early formative years of planet birth.
Take this opportunity to give your child some extra help and support in these very
young formative years, and see where you're at when it's over.
I felt a bit the outsider because I could not express how I missed those
wonderful formative years (including the time spent as a security guard).
My mother, by far my greatest inspiration, always answered all my questions in those
decisive formative years and encouraged me to ask more questions.
Beyond that, the ebooks also provide more than a passing glance on how space programs shaped up during the
initial formative years.
The French - American artist's
formative years remained a constant source of inspiration throughout her seven - decade career.
Preparing for Life will provide a fundamental insight into the services needed during these
key formative years.
For children who suffer these devastating injuries, the impact can be very detrimental
during formative years.
The aim is to help couples make the most of the
early formative years and thus build strong foundations for lifelong patterns of creative relating.
Paule Vézelay was born in 1892 in Bristol but
spent formative years in Paris, working alongside Miro and Kandinsky before being forced back to the UK by the war in 1939.
From here on out my love for video games would only continue to grow and I'd spend most of
formative years as a diehard Nintendo fanboy!
Forster has nurtured his drawing
from formative years he describes as an «anxious teenager alienated in an English suburban bedroom.»
Like many of his greatest works, Made in Japan I is indelibly inscribed with the traces of Basquiat's
formative years on the streets of New York, executed with the same expressive gestural freedom that defined his poetic graffiti tags as a teenager.
Let us allow the Holy Spirit to answer through phrases He whispered to her
through formative years — phrases that she eventually pieced together and called her Little Mandate from God.
I remember a series of very
formative years growing up, where Lenny Kravitz was a dominating force on what we didn't know at the time was the dying breath of commercial radio and televised...
She moved throughout the United States and spent
formative years living just outside Washington DC within blocks of the Adah Rose Gallery.
There's nothing new about coming - of - age comedies, but Lady Bird gets the genre thrillingly right, thanks to screenwriter Greta Gerwig in a solo directing debut that mines her
own formative years in Sacramento circa 2002.
Thankfully, the Internet came along and preserved the memory of the art form's
more formative years.
I think it is safe to say that the individual liberties so cherished by our ancestors and by each succeeding generation will never be really secure until our youth, throughout the
crucial formative years of their minds and spirits, are nurtured in a school environment that embodies these basic American truths.
Expanding supports for middle and high school students to address their health and socio - emotional needs during
critical formative years in their adolescence
Okay, okay, I know, bad pun but I spent
formative years watching The Simpsons and if you can't have a bit of word smithing fun on Summer Solstice eve, when can you?
CFBDSIR2149 was likely kicked out of its home solar system during
turbulent formative years, when other planets» orbits established themselves and flung it out into space to fend for itself.
«The other thing is that if you're a well - to - do young man who is the son of wealthy Americans, living the grand tour in Europe, and they go to the ocean every January and June, you'll have much
different formative years as an artist than your friend who's poor and can't leave Paris and can barely pay the rent,» Cash says.
Contents and Sections: Introduction Chapter One: Zhang Xiaogang's
Formative Years Chapter Two: A Distinctive Voice Chapter Three: Return to the Human World Chapter Four: Mutual Infiltrations Chapter Five: The Space of Unravelling The Artist's Letters and Correspondence Chronology Exhibitions, Bibliography, Notes Index
Provocative, brutally honest, R - rated
formative year stories for females are certainly in short supply, and so Heller's vividly drawn debut feature certainly delivers in this regard, with a rich and expressively effervescent bildungsroman story.
But those turbulent
formative years contributed to both a level - headedness and a stubborn belief that any business challenge can be overcome.
«Much of this is attributable to the financial crisis and Great Recession coming during the
financially formative years for many millennials.»
Unfortunately, Rush does not know what communism and Marxism are.Having spent
formative years behind the iron curtain, I do have some general idea of what it entails having lived it and it is not what the Pope was asking for.
Thatcher I was Margaret Thatcher's political secretary, so my whole
political formative years were working with her, so I'm a very strong Thatcherite, I'm a Eurosceptic, I'm a small - state tax - cutter.
But what might have been
idyllic formative years were tainted by the 1948 institutionalization of apartheid, a set of laws that enforced white supremacist rule over those categorized as «blacks,» «coloreds» and «Asians.»
Something about myself that I don't often share (particularly not with all of cyberspace) is that, during those
tumultuous formative years, I also had a horribly disfiguring skin condition from the time I was about 6 months old (I'm actually in a medical book somewhere due to its severity).
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