rich seam

rich seam

A multifaceted topic that provides a lot of interesting material for discussion or writing. Judy's childhood experiences were a rich seam for her as she wrote her first novel.
See also: rich, seam
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • seam (something) with (something)
  • seam with
  • (off) on a tangent
  • (off) on a sidetrack
  • air (one's) opinion
  • a sticking point
  • clever boots
  • flop account
  • change the subject
  • a grey area
References in periodicals archive
In doing so, lead vocalist Lydia Night and cohorts mine a rich seam of teen angst set to infectious rock hooks.
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But the Dumfries and Galloway girls struck a rich seam of form and bowled their way to the final of the under-25s Scottish two-bowl pairs.
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This thriller explores typically dark territory for this author, who has a gift for tapping a rich seam of evil that underpins the surface of the every day.
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She has a rare gift for exploring a rich seam of evil that underpins the surface of the every day.
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The editors of this book have tapped into that rich seam to tell the story of this epochal event through the words of those who lived through it.
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Ultimate Worrier taps a rich seam. Everyone has irrational worries but I should warn you that if you are even remotely obsessed with detail, this show might be a challenge.
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With Nathan Austin fit again and George Oakley enjoying a rich seam of scoring form Robertson saw little risk in allowing Baird to join Jim Duffy's side.
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Gore frequently trumps giggles in Christopher Landon's picture but the tantalising dramatic conceit of a distraught heroine, Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe, left) stuck in a tragic groove provides screenwriter Scott Lobdell with a rich seam of black humour.
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Gore frequently trumps giggles during Happy Death Day but the tantalising dramatic conceit of a distraught heroine stuck in a tragic groove provides screenwriter Scott Lobdell with a rich seam of black humour and female empowerment.
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Sweet Pizza strikes me as a great class novel--it is layered, there are many issues worthy of discussion and further research (heritage, immigration, war, discrimination, families) and the oral history of Nonno is a rich seam worth mining--it's the sort of book that improves the more you share it with others.
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Each one of us living here can only benefit by understanding more about the rich seam of stories and poetry in a variety of forms that emanate from the UAE; we will certainly be the richer for it," Isobel Abulhoul, CEO and Trustee of the Emirates Literature Foundation and Festival Director of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, said in a statement.
Reviving UAE's glorious literary history
And then the rich seam is exhausted and the whole sad circus moves on.
All that glitters
An indulgent thick chocolate fudge icing coats the outer, along with an internal rich seam. The cake is crowned with both dark chocolate shavings and dainty speckled chocolate birds eggs.
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AS far as programme-makers are concerned, the law is a rich seam to be mined for dramatic gold, and they have done so brilliantly with Garrow's Law.
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The saga follows young Tim Beckdolt, who discovered a rich seam of gold in Arizona's Desperation Peak--only to have his claim jumped by the Swedish giant Sven and the Virginia murderer Bonnet.
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