Other seminal experiences came from his own family background, travel, and during his Army service.

"The theater is a seminal experience," he said.

"It was the seminal psychological experience of my life," he said.

"A lot of the seminal experiences of my early professional life in the theater were in America," he said.

It is here that I would take an oyster virgin for that first seminal experience.

The seminal experience of his life was the American Revolution.

But now I can relive what was apparently a seminal experience for my generation.

It was a seminal experience of my life.

It was one of my seminal experiences.

"That was a seminal experience for me," he said.