There's no doubt that R Kelly is the sole true heir to Marvin Gaye's love-god crown, a position secured through single-minded devotion to his mind's one track.
During my stint at the hotel, I witness numerous deviations from a single-minded devotion to customer service.
The qualities rewarded there - self-reliance, ambition, single-minded devotion to work - make women unfit for marriage and vice versa.
Since he was young, Mr. Blankenship has been admired by friends for his single-minded devotion to the music business.
To Mr. Ansari, the musicians he satirizes are fascinating not for their over-the-top lifestyles but for their single-minded devotion to their craft.
Her single-minded devotion to Point Loma left the society at large open to schism; some local lodges split from Tingley's group.
A compact, bearded man with a serious manner punctuated by a staccato chuckle, he shows a single-minded devotion to his craft.
His advocates explain that Asperger's can result in a single-minded devotion to a particular thing — in Mr. McCollum's case, transit.
Of all Frazer's great qualities, the most marked, as well as the most immediately striking, was his transparent and single-minded devotion to the cause of truth.
Staunton's tremendous performance reminded me more of Brecht's Mother Courage: another woman who, through her single-minded devotion to her children, inevitably loses them.
He also had a single-minded devotion to the cause, which was helpful because it took 44 more years to complete.
