She shows us the psychology behind this behavior, the buried emotional issues that have indelibly shaped Ann's life, the childhood grief and humiliation that have been translated into grown-up dysfunction.

Winchell's sensibility, Mr. Gabler tells us, was indelibly shaped by his impoverished childhood in Harlem and by his early, scrambling years as a performer in vaudeville.

GRANDPA lived through the Depression, and life thereafter was indelibly shaped by haunting memories of soup kitchens and hobos.

But she also realizes that it has indelibly shaped her and her sisters, even though they have all rebelled in some measure and now lead very different lives.

But their initial theory - that danger lurks, not outside, but within Yale's neo-Gothic walls - has indelibly shaped the campus narrative of the murder mystery.

Even those who think of Genesis only as literature, and those who are not Christian, live in a culture indelibly shaped by such interpretations as these.

The music in Harlem's clubs and theaters, during and after the Harlem Renaissance, indelibly shaped how jazz entered and informed virtually all American culture.

"His understanding of Islam is indelibly shaped by his concern for social justice and inter-communal harmony, of course."

So begins Eva Hoffman's extraordinarily cleareyed and unsentimental meditation on how she was indelibly shaped by the memory of catastrophic events she never knew directly.