Still, its one of those character-building experiences I think every young man should go through.

You can look back on all this as a character-building exercise.

When you've got to work to get through a game like he did today, that's character-building stuff.

No character-building quality at all, and certainly not for gentlemen.

These games involve character-building, in which your skills increase with experience.

It is the character-building experiences that really set this generation apart.

It was a character-building process and we got through it.

"Every single experience you have, and mostly the bad experiences, they are the character-building ones.

Equally, everyone gains the chance to enjoy the character-building experience of playing in a team.

On the other hand, the armed forces stress what a character-building and discipline experience service provides.

"It was one of those character-building things, a learning curve I guess.

I had thought perhaps that giving birth might have proved character-building, but evidently not.

For a sculptor it was what some people might describe as a "character-building" experience!

"Think of it as a character-building experience," Austin said cheerfully.

"This is one of those character-building situations you face in life," she told Hilary.

It's all character-building and I was hugely proud to be national team manager.

It captured the spirit of their character-building movement, and was in popular usage until 1937.

Does he agree that sport is one of the most character-building of activities?

They were OK afterwards and it's probably character-building for them.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience.

There was nothing particularly character-building about having to talk to your girlfriend's grouchy dad.

It is character-building education aiming for all-round development of man that we want.

"It was a character-building experience that very few girls growing up in an earlier generation had a chance to have," says Kindlon.

It's a rite of passage, a painful, character-building learning experience.

Life for the under-12s at the Ramsay household looks character-building to an outsider.

For the past 50 years liberals have had majority control of the character-forming institutions.

I ask Ted what he thinks of my own character-forming experiment.

Some would call it character-forming or a gladiatorial fact of Westminster life.

Adversity, and the freedom from the neediness of modern media, are character-forming.

Beyond that, laws and government policies can affirm, or weaken, character-forming institutions like the family.

The 10 finalists are sent out together on a weekly trip that is supposed to be character-forming or at least inspiring.

A neophyte taking a skiing holiday used to spend the first week in excruciating, character-forming exercises.

"It'll be a character-forming experience for you."

Francis sees the whole exchange as a life-changing experience which gave him a whole new perspective on life and was very character-forming.

It's easy to forget that setbacks and a degree of discomfort can be character-forming and help foster independence.

Shankly, like Morgan a product of a harsh, character-forming, coal-mining background, never forgot where he came from.

Clearly Ms. Trump was not herself aged 2 when these character-forming incidents took place.)

Some are too pampered, too removed from the old-school, character-forming reserve-team football.

I expect he thought it would be character-forming,' Pertelope replied as he turned the spit. '

"Good manners not only give you a much-needed edge when going for a job," she says, "they are both character-forming and the lynchpins of civilisation.

Resistance is character-forming.

“I have always given more money to Exeter because I felt it was the most educational experience and character-forming experience of my life.”

“And it was character-forming.

He left Harrow as a largely apolitical teenager and spent three character-forming months on a cargo steamer in the Caribbean.

If a person has had the opportunity to make a character-forming decision (SFA), he is responsible for the actions that are a result of his character.

At its warmest the pair’s camaraderie suggests that their character-forming struggle has made them brothers-in-arms – something that’s both about skin colour and not at all.

Throughout this character-forming ordeal, we see him morph from stiff, callow, middle-class drifter to confident, daring crusader.

But surely, it will be argued, what is really important is that as many students as possible have the opportunity to have these extracurricular character-forming experiences.

Or: "Character-forming country cottage currently undergoing a bit of a makeover which will eventually drag it from the turn of the century up to somewhere around the 1950s".

Thomas Jefferson argued for smaller political units, "wards" as small as a few hundred people, that would allow every citizen to participate in the character-forming benefits of self-government.