There is a wide diffusion of truth in our midst; but where is its formative power?
It is as real and as precious as ever, and it ought to be as formative and as influential.
His work in the formative years of the Council, particularly in the raising of funds for the first three years, was of untold value.
His devoted wife, who was Hortense Chew Lewis of New London, Connecticut, guided the children through their formative years with skill and understanding.
It is very easy to see that the tendency to pathological lying begins in the early formative years.
Common-sense observation of general character building would tend to make us readily believe that if an individual got through the formative years of life with a normal hold upon veracity he would never become a pathological liar.
We can see definite beginnings at certain critically formative periods, as in Case 6 and perhaps in Case 3, but our material shows that most cases demonstrate more gradually insidious beginnings.
So implicit is the unity of soul and body at this formative age that care of the body is the most effective ethico-religious culture.
There are unmistakable evidences of a subtle formative influence from these rich sources, which explains the simultaneous sporadic outbreak of similar views in widely sundered places.
The creation of the Quaker "Society" was not the work of any man; the groups were there before the formative leader appeared on the scene.
A fertilized ovum, in which the predecessor of the thyroid gland is present, that is to say, in which there is the seed and soil for its sprouting, looks the same as one without that formative material.
But it has, besides the energizing effect, certainformative and nervous influences equally marvelous.
To lead a mind in the formative stage from the low to the high, from tales of wild adventure to the best stories for the young, is by no means difficult.
But the formative power of books can never be over-rated: their subtle mastery to stimulate all the germs of intellectual and moral life that lie enfolded in the mind.
Spiritual work is formative and selective; it is the triumphant realisation of form; it is necessary that life in all its stages of development should be permeated by this formative spiritual activity.
All spiritual activity is, as we saw, a transcendence of the antithesis of subject and object; it is progressive and formative universal activity.
These utterances of Jefferson apply of course only to boys in the formative period of their lives, and not to mature students who go abroad for higher culture.
Well, in this Formative Era our atmosphere, and the hydrosphere or oceanic areas were being formed, along with the granite continents.
After the Formative Era came the Archeozoic Era, when life began in the form of amoebas or some simple form of protoplasm.
There is room yet for moral genius; we are yet in the early and formative stage of human morality.
It is not, indeed, an innate faculty; it was acquired during our formative years; it is not infallible.
All children should have constant supervision during the formative period, but more especially does the blind child need watchful guidance in his work and at his play.
The segmentation of the lens-shaped formative yelk (b) proceeds quite independently of the nutritive yelk, and in perfect geometrical order.
In the end the whole of the formative yelk divides into a number of small and homogeneous cells, which lie close together in a single stratum on the entire surface of the ovum, and form a superficial blastoderm.
He believes that every living thing has arisen by the interaction of two opposing formative forces or impulses.
It has arisen through the accumulation of a store of food-stuff at the vegetal pole, a "nutritive yelk" being thus formed in contrast to the "formative yelk.
Here it is surrounded by a small quantity of protoplasm, and with this forms the lens-shaped formative yelk (Figure 1.
As with these, partial cleavage takes place at a spot on the surface at which the small formative yelk and the nucleus it encloses are found.
It is sometimes large and sometimes small, but generally many times larger than the formative yelk; and hence it is that it was formerly thought the more important of the two.
Only the formativeyelk undergoes cleavage, the nutritive yelk not dividing at all at first.
The formative yelk alone consists of living protoplasm, and is the active, evolutionary, and nucleated part of the ovum; this alone divides in segmentation, and produces the numerous cells which make up the embryo.
They transfer formative material from one part of a stem to another, communicating with both wood and bark by means of the simple and bordered pits in them, and (2) they bind the trunk together from pith to bark.
They serve to transfer formative material from one part of the stem to another and to bind the tree together from pith to bark.
In society, literacy imposed its formative structure on education, and what resulted was design education with a strong liberal arts component.
Growing up under the formative influence of short cycles and the expectation of quick conclusions to their acts, youngsters oppose any reading that is not to the point (as they see it).
In this category fall literature, mathematics, philosophy, and almost everything else definable within literacy as formative subject matter or discipline.
There were several remarkable formativeinfluences operating on this young life.
She’ stated that, “all the formativeand expressional as well as nearly all the visionary power is my friends.
I think he cares little for anything but through the remembering imagination to recall and interpret, and through the formative and penetrative imagination to discover certain mysteries of psychological and spiritual life.
To assign any specific date to the end of this formative age is of course impossible, but meaning by the end what has just been stated, we shall not be far wrong if we place it somewhere near the beginning of the 10th century.
But we may say that the formative age was over when these features of the system had combined to be its characteristic marks.
When this stage was reached the formative age of feudalism may be considered at an end.
This is the essential value of A Virginia Girl in the Civil War: it shows us simply, sincerely, and unconsciously what life meant to an American woman during the vital and formative period of American history.
The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "formative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
