It must be boring having to report on all the introspection, it's surely more fun to shape things rather than spectate?
"Maybe it's a good idea to shape things in a way that would support the theater industry."
He portrayed a future which many reading it wanted (parts of it anyway) to inhabit, and that does then shape things.
"Do you mean to say, then, that you think an art form can also shape such important things as the function of magic?"
It is the symbol of his power as he reaches out and begins to shape things to his will.
"What happened to your desire to shape things?"
No one else could have shaped things in this manner.
It was flatly incredible that men had ever known how to shape things in the high blackness, or even to fly there.
Her lips shaped the words after him silently: " - things to tell us!"
I prefer to shape things directly, and will take the responsibility for success and failure both.