Learned by Reading
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
These were my formative national experiences.
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In the British National Corpus:
Much of the promise of an encounter between Hughea and Shakespeare, then, derives from the sense of a coming together and culmination of two formative experiences of the idea of literature; of reading as a testing activity.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Watergate was one of the formative political experiences of Queen Bee’s youth.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Remember that these formative experiences will shape the behaviour of your pet for the rest of her life, so the idea is that they should be pleasurable and fun.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
That was something that Gov. Palin was alarmed about and was one of the formative experiences that led her toward the reform – oriented stance that she has taken as her career has progressed.”
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(. .) ('' ') ('' ')))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And as Spiegelman interwove his own formative experiences with comics, you could see the whole thing was going over really well.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
When I entered missionary work, the above formative experiences worked like schooling to ready me for the lifestyle.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Pay attention to the people you were with during those formative experiences – there’s nothing that seems to bond people together better than having covered the same difficult, challenging ground at the same time.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books..
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I realize that their responses do not necessarily mean that these formative experiences did not occur but that they may have either forgotten about them or did not feel they were significant enough to record.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He acknowledges that not everyone experiences this nihilism, and I suppose our formative experiences would shape our ultimate philosophical view of the world.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Everyone has memories of certain formative experiences that seemed to mark the end of naive adolescence and the beginning of cynical adulthood.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
When I was a fourth – grade teacher through Teach For America, I had kids who were extremely bright and had a variety of passions but the reality was that they simply didn’t have access to the same formative experiences as children in wealthier areas.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Me: I’d happily go for a Promethea, she’s insanely powerful and she doesn’t seem to be cursed with the miserable formative experiences that drove so many other superheroes to their second career choice.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The friendship and alliance between mostly black musicians and mostly white authors and poets was an early sign of the civil rights movement of the fifties and sixties (remember, these formative experiences were mostly from the forties).
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Share your formative Judy Blume experiences!?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
That was something that Gov. Palin was alarmed about and was one of the formative experiences that led her toward the reform – oriented stance that she has taken as her career has progressed.”
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