His singleness of purpose. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The singleness of his motives could not be questioned. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
That thing we call singleness of heart and mind is a dread thing to behold. From Wordnik.com. [SERIAL 9: Kondo Katsusaburo among Taiwan's Atayal/Sedeq peoples, 1896 to 1930] Reference
The poem makes a point that Michael had not passed his days in singleness. From Wordnik.com. ['Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes] Reference
Someday, I think she's going to see my long-term singleness as a selfish thing to not give her grandchildren. From Wordnik.com. [The End of an Ordeal -] Reference
And this our blessed Saviour, with admirable emphasis and significance of expression, calls the singleness of the eye, in the verse immediately before the text. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.] Reference
By what means may what kind of singleness of purpose be attained by men, with respect to both, viz., the mind and the senses?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
This 'singleness' is merely a name for 'the states of Equilibrium. From Wordnik.com. [The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1] Reference
This singleness of purpose Beddoes never possessed. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
Such singleness of purpose seemed completely unnatural. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
Continuity on a singleness of purpose is a valuable thing. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
We lack the singleness of heart and the self-forgetfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
It could be any set of ideas; it is the singleness that offends. From Wordnik.com. [America's No. 1 Chinese Son] Reference
Courage, earnestness, and singleness of purpose mark His career. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
One has the mercenary spirit, the other has singleness of purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
"I have already had good proof of your singleness of purpose," she replied. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
Nevertheless, Tilden would not be diverted from the singleness of his purpose. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
What strange motive could lurk behind her calm surety and singleness of purpose?. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
The absolute essential is the spirit of united effort and singleness of purpose. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
This singleness of purpose is well illustrated by a story about the painter Protogenes. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Russia, apparently, lacks the coördination and singleness of purpose necessary for one. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
Probably no other man of his kind has proposed before, which accounts for her singleness. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Our helplessness in the presence of grief proves this fundamental singleness of human life. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
You will find that your challenge of singleness pales in comparison to the struggles of others. From Wordnik.com. [Ilana Donna Arazie: How to Be a Zen Dater] Reference
The call of positiveness, in its aspects of singleness, or homogeneity, or oneness, or completeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Tzu-hsia said, By wide learning and singleness of will, by keen questions and home thinking we reach love. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
It is this singleness of purpose, this absorption in a great life - work, that nerves our missionaries in their exile. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
Jason cursed the pain as Krannon put on a dressing, and admired the singleness of purpose of the people who had shot him. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
But with it all, in spite of the fact of the community of human life, there is the other fact of the singleness of human life. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
The public confidence in, and respect for his honesty and singleness of aim toward the good of the country ripened into an affectionate attachment. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Let it be noticed that the tense of the verb in this connection denotes singleness of action, so that Paul's prayer may be answered not gradually but immediately. From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
It was in the vision that crossed his ways in the dark and boisterous taverns where love finds strange ways for expression, that the singleness of feeling possessed him. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
The circumstance to which we would especially call attention at present is, the singleness of thought exercised upon the object, during the time that the child is amused by it. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference
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