Her single-minded dedication to her family and to the idea of family will continue to guide us all.
The administration's inclination toward unilateral action has the ring of single-minded dedication to national self-interest, muscularity and determination.
Smith's single-minded dedication to a fairly mirthless bohemianism is both notable and discomfiting; the reader, almost inevitably, falls short of Smith's own moral measure.
The poem is a sympathetic portrait of a student whose single-minded dedication to Talmudic study is awe-inspiring, even saintly.
He was often likened to Australia's Don Bradman in his single-minded dedication to scoring runs and the certainty of his strokeplay off both front and back foot.
But Owen is known for an unusual level-headedness and a single-minded dedication to achieving his modest ambition: becoming the world's best player.
As the officer supervising the execution, Herbert Perry conveys single-minded dedication to his calling, which is to run the machine.
Already known for his abrasiveness toward visitors during working hours, he became notorious for his single-minded dedication to the making of art and for his hostility to journalists and the merely curious.
The purchase was the most glaring demonstration of Mr. Ratner's single-minded dedication to a goal: building a 22-acre, $4.9 billion project in the heart of Brooklyn, the largest development project in the borough's history.
Evelyn's passionate action and determination to improve the health of women and families led her to establish BCRF in 1993, and her single-minded dedication to finding a cure for breast cancer never wavered.
Or why, for that matter, expect people who have lived with a single-minded dedication to a single narrow field of endeavor to know anything special, let alone anything practical, about life at large?
