Now comes a feature film called A Private War focusing on Colvin's driven personality, which combined professional triumphs over three decades with personal battles against alcoholism and depression.
Mr. Hollande, born in Rouen, the son of a doctor and a social worker, has said the country needs "a normal president," a backhanded slap at Mr. Sarkozy, who has a driven, relentless personality and who has embroiled the French more in his personal life than many people find comfortable.
The notion of New York as a playground was propagated by Broadway's gossip columnists, and especially by Winchell, whose insatiable, driven personality made him a sort of contemporary Sir Epicure Mammon.
Here, finally, was an objective explanation for some of my strengths and weaknesses, the simultaneous capacity for unbroken work and all-encompassing recall, linked inextricably to a driven, uncomfortable personality.
His cautious, almost pessimistic, approach to politics sat oddly with his driven personality and his image as a rough diamond on the literary scene.
His tough and driven personality may be something O'Reilly liked when selecting him, but moving an office and sacrificing 200 jobs to create a new culture?
Into this bare terrain came a couple of driven personalities.
