The job requires single-minded attention to the task, and I have too many other interests and commitments.
When Fenton comes home, anticipating the single-minded attention Valerie will give him, he is thrilled to find, in addition, the smell of good cooking.
"There's no reason to believe that children need to have absolute single-minded attention being paid to them with nothing else in the background," she said.
Despite the single-minded attention he has given to an abstruse game of sixty-four squares, he is interested in everything from sports (soccer, especially) to literature (his favorite novel is Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita," a celebrated example of allegory in the Soviet era).
But to whatever extent Mr. Obama controlled the fate of his young presidency, Mr. Podesta believes that his most consequential decisions on domestic policy stemmed from one overarching conviction — that the president's most important job in a crisis, requiring nearly single-minded attention, was to pass huge legislation.
He succeeded so well at this that his mother, suspecting, rightly, that such single-minded attention to schoolwork indicated neglect of more socially acceptable activities, offered him a cash bribe to drop his average, but there was no helping his social situation.
Given my life and my personality, like most people today I can't always be "in the moment" or pay single-minded attention to any one thing.
They are so single minded about it, that things like attention spans simply do not exist.
Woods is a champion known for both single-minded, grinding attention to detail and the occasional creative, surprising play.
The Drosophila single minded transcription factor is a master developmental regulator (Nambu et al., 1991).
But offstage, those who worked alongside him say, Mr. Weiner was a lawmaker with little patience for making laws and a single-minded focus on generating attention so he could run for mayor of New York.
