In any event that was all character-building stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radio-Television News Director's Association 2000 Murrow Awards Ceremony] Reference

BORK: Well, it was a character-building experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline] Reference

Poverty's character-building potential is far overrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2009] Reference

But think of it this way: sacrifice is character-building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erica Jong: A Busted Father Writes to His Kids] Reference

Obviously, the best character-building takes place at home.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Works] Reference

On good days, Spencer says, she sees it as character-building.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Juggling Game For A Single Mom In The Middle] Reference

Like sports, music, band and other character-building activities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermene Hartman: Seven Solutions to End School Violence] Reference

It was an exercise in character-building just to have completed it.    From Wordnik.com.  [sa-land Diary Entry] Reference

That's what people around here call a character-building experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Announces New Earthquake Relief Measures] Reference

"It was a character-building experience," Mr. Taylor said at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [William L. Taylor, 78; Washington lawyer, champion of civil rights] Reference

Franklin, too, devised a plan of self-improvement and character-building.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference

From character-building, witty scripts to setting, to general atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [rouflaquette Diary Entry] Reference

The charade leads to predictably farcical, and character-building, results.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Concept of a Low Order] Reference

As responsible parents know, character-building works best when it starts young.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Works] Reference

Service is an effective character-building tool within the middle class as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Works] Reference

The dialogue was hilarious and I seeded a crucial character-building moment in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The 99th cut is the deepest] Reference

They should be able to compete for dedicated, effective, character-building teachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2008] Reference

Bad as that is, it's not the worst hypocrisy to result from our "character-building" sport.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Sweetland: Education in Chicago: Our Sports Madness Puts Tens of Thousands of Child Athletes in Danger] Reference

He'll be telling us next that defeat for America (and the UK) would be 'character-building'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-06-26] Reference

Pop won't mind forking out for the Y membership, because he'll figure it's character-building.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Like This, Cat] Reference

In conclusion, the rules that may be safely followed in character-building may be summed up thus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study of Child Life] Reference

And getting through those things is really -- is really a character-building thing if you make it so.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 9, 2006] Reference

He shrugged off anti-American press coverage and corridor insults as a "character-building experience.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grinch Of Rio] Reference

But failure is a character-building exercise, he said, using as an example his own battle with alcohol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Decoding Glenn Beck's Speech: A.A. Repackaged as a Rob-the-Poor Program] Reference

Any new death in the ring will only detract from the character-building role that boxing plays in society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address by President Mandela at the opening of the 36th Annual World Boxing Council Convention] Reference

But today's kids have a way of life that entails its own character-building process, its own ethical system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merits of Meritocracy] Reference

Many of those character-building traits are every bit as critical to succeeding in life as sheer book smarts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's Clean Up College Basketball and Football] Reference

No part of education has more to do with character-building than the inculcating of a love of good literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children and Their Books] Reference

We have also promoted citizen service -- one of the greatest character-building tools available to our society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proclamation On National Character Counts Week] Reference

Mr. METHENY: I expect it to be a character-building experience when things don't work, which is going to happen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man And Machines: Pat Metheny's Orchestrion] Reference

She also wants her daughter to go through “a character-building puberty” with some frizzy, zit-filled years.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Tina Fey Wants] Reference

There was no question, if the Association could get permission, to render a fraternal service to help in character-building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I] Reference

The boredom of a bad teacher can be character-building: while your attention is wandering, you may discover who you truly are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kiddie Class Struggle] Reference

The Boy Scouts is an organization the purpose of which is character-building for boys between the ages of twelve and eighteen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference

To impart the desire for knowledge and the power of getting it is next to character-building the most important work of the school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children and Their Books] Reference

I want to thank you for teaching not only academic subjects, but character-building, and the importance of maintaining good health.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President At Us Dream Academy] Reference

In this connection it should be necessary merely to call attention to the chapter on character-building, to be found in this volume.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

Nationally, a much larger character-building program, Stop, Think, Act, review (STAR), is now being tried with thousands of students.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Works] Reference