Their single-mindedness often verges on fanaticism. From Wordnik.com. [Close To The Lunatic Edge] Reference
With the single-mindedness born of an unselfish purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
If you read this, she shows a single-mindedness of purpose. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2009] Reference
His single-mindedness simply doesn't work in a family context. From Wordnik.com. [Stanton Peele: Two Views of Apology] Reference
The single-mindedness can smother self-restraint and common sense. From Wordnik.com. [Ambitious to Fault] Reference
Had there always been this absolute single-mindedness between them?. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
NGUYEN: And that single-mindedness has paid off for this mama's boy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2006] Reference
Dr. Wolfe's single-mindedness occasionally ticks off his own groupies. From Wordnik.com. [A Wolfe in Regulator's Clothing:] Reference
With the single-mindedness of the young, they claimed her for their accustomed ride. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of Expectations]
Sarkozy has pursued the presidency with a single-mindedness that many find distasteful. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Bard: Vive la France? The French Presidential Elections, Round 1] Reference
By that time, my single-mindedness had subsided and I was able to be genuinely thrilled. From Wordnik.com. [Isobel White: Rick Warren: Another Damper on My Chance at Obama-mania] Reference
For all her apparent single-mindedness, Miranda is far more than the sum of her takedowns. From Wordnik.com. [Going For The Takedown] Reference
The same single-mindedness that has brought them this far will now be working against them. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Road Ahead] Reference
"I have to admit, you have a single-mindedness that must be very useful in your profession.". From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
Neither ambition nor single-mindedness fully accounts for the behavior of politicians, however. From Wordnik.com. [The Audacity of Hope]
These evangelical's are a strange mixture of angry, apocalyptic rhetoric and single-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [Max Blumenthal: My Interview With Pastor Hagee On His Anti-Semitic Statements (and What Will Lieberman Say Now?)] Reference
And I would be alone there, while he writes and researches with that single-mindedness I admire. From Wordnik.com. [Coffee] Reference
But of Sir Walter Besant's single-mindedness in this voluntary work there is no shadow of doubt. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
He is praised for his "sincerity and strength," for his single-mindedness, his directness, his audacity. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
I was often mocked, however, for my single-mindedness, my mode dogmatique, if you pardon the woeful pun. From Wordnik.com. [dotting i's, minding p's, q's] Reference
She could be sure, however, that they were coming with that inexorable robot logic and single-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [Perihilion]
It helps to have what Stephen Fraser calls the "suicidal single-mindedness" to run the paperwork gauntlet. From Wordnik.com. [For Small Businesses, Borrowing Is Not So Dire] Reference
And you have a single-mindedness of purpose as a parent to make sure that your -- it's a single-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2005] Reference
And I think that one of the keys to his biography is the intensity and single-mindedness of their love for him. From Wordnik.com. [Isaiah Berlin: A Life] Reference
Yet these gentlemen thought that animals ought to exhibit the ethical single-mindedness of exceptional individuals!. From Wordnik.com. [Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals] Reference
It is undebated, unreported, unquestioned, this policy conceived with the vacuous single-mindedness of serial killers. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Koehler: Steel Rain] Reference
But I do know, however, that leadership is -- in part - about vision and that it is -- in part - about single-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Jefferson: The Kennedy and Leadership: A Reappraisal] Reference
Still the robots streamed past, intent on their destination with that single-mindedness so evident in the Avery creations. From Wordnik.com. [Perihilion]
It was by sheer devotion to his work and single-mindedness of purpose that he was able to become a leading scientist in his field. From Wordnik.com. [The Space Pioneers] Reference
Brody says, laughing at his single-mindedness, but also pointing out that a trial for Habre is more than justice for one country in. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He would, however, take full advantage of it, now that an edge had been driven under my single-mindedness, to prise me from my work. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter of Mary]
For over half a century, UMUNT 'OMDALA traversed uncharted paths with a single-mindedness and devotion that were unique only to him. From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE FUNERAL OF HARRY THEMBA GWALA] Reference
And I admire her single-mindedness and her outspokenness, when it's obviously not always been to her political advantage, in my view. From Wordnik.com. [Mexican-Americans: The Ambivalent Minority] Reference
Then he remembered that he had asked her a question; now she was answering it, with the single-mindedness of the meager intellect she had. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
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