There is no disconnect between the driven, single-minded character and his capacity for violence.
The typical Brooklyn rooter is a very strange & passonate & single-minded character.
He is a lean, prickly, single-minded character, whose stance before the microphone implies that tact is for girls; he is after victory, not popularity.
Rather like her single-minded characters, when Ms. Benjamin hits upon a joke she likes, she keeps banging away at it as if it were a gong.
For a long time, many of the best fictional heroines on TV dramas were driven professionals without family distractions, probably because the easiest way to make that kind of single-minded female character sympathetic was to keep her single and childless.
The Drosophila single minded transcription factor is a master developmental regulator (Nambu et al., 1991).
Charles Saatchi's achievement derives from an imperial character – single-minded, visionary, decisive, bold but also capricious, hot-tempered, hubristic, with a short attention span and a certain vulnerability, that emerges in turns as shyness and defensiveness.
O'Connor believes that Richardson did not succeed with Othello or Macbeth because of the characters' single-minded "blind driving passion – too extreme, too inhuman", which was incomprehensible and alien to him.
But in Mattie they have created a character whose single-minded pursuit of vengeance has unmistakable resonance.
"Kshay (Corrode)," written and directed by Karan Gour, is a black-and-white independent feature based on a character's single-minded obsession with an unfinished statue of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi.
They replaced the Pushkin character's single-minded obsession with discovering the old countess's secret for winning at cards with a dual fascination, the other being an equally consuming passion for Lisa, the countess's granddaughter.
