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

"I think it's a very effective character-building experience."

I now look back at that time as a character-building experience and I am pleased to have gone through it.

Alumni have credited these midterms as being among their most formative and character-building experiences.

We no longer expect a leader to use the character-building experiences of his life in order to measure up to his larger responsibilities.

Certainly he has provided the former front-runner, George Bush, with a character-building experience.

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

A: It's a great character-building experience, I'll tell you.

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

Being dead has lately been presented on screen as a character-building experience, but beyond that the current ghost films hedge their bets.