1.   His quirkily dysfunctional family proved to be a bottomless well of inspiration for the novelist.

2.   And technology-related companies were especially keen to use a seemingly bottomless well of investor cash to finance their capital-intensive start-ups.

3.   He can be a smooth-talking Southerner with a bottomless well of charm one moment and a bombastic, plain speaking warrior the next.

4.   It features guest crooner R. Kelly, a bottomless well of bad taste.

5.   It was all washed down with cold beer, fine wine and a bottomless well of booze from four open bars.

6.   The bitter quarrels that have marked Serb opposition politics in recent years have created an almost bottomless well of apathy among ordinary voters.

7.   The department has sometimes seemed like a bottomless well of scandal and mismanagement.

8.   The Internet, if nothing else, is a bottomless well of information about computers.

9.   The reasons for the apparently bottomless well of pet devotion are economic and historical, as well as psychological.

10.   There are bound to be sequels because, as we see and hear almost daily, celebrity is a bottomless well of stupidity.