1.  The body has about a hundred billion nerve cells, and every experience triggers a brain response that literally shapes our senses.

2.  All these responses are framed in the dramatic, sentimental or goofy black-and-white terms that shaped his sense of the world early on.

3.  The magicians in Munich have shaped that sense of harmony between car and driver.

4.  Years of work in opera have helped to shape his sense of cinematic rhythm.