None possessed Mr. Bard's single-minded passion for the place.
Mr. Magnuson, 57, pursued golf with single-minded passion.
Devoted to family, which was the single-minded passion of her life.
Ms. Brown is always described as a cerebral choreographer, but her work is full of single-minded passion.
His single-minded passion for climbing has survived the loss of one of his brothers and all but three of his toes.
Far from grey bureaucrats and number-crunchers, many of those who founded and maintained the cohorts were appealingly idiosyncratic, and their single-minded passion drove some close to a breakdown.
As written and played by Beatty, Hughes is a man of a single-minded passion — aviation — and to pursue it he has to play with power at its highest levels of money and politics, both domestic and international.
Thus the Broadway musical "Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark" didn't flop merely because of lousy songs, legal troubles and ghastly accidents but because the director Julie Taymor, "like a character in some Attic play," was "led by a single-minded passion to betray her truest self and abandon her greatest virtues".
A small, off-the-beaten-path museum an hour north of Milwaukee, it has been building a reputation in the art world for exhibiting so-called outsider or self-taught art with the kind of single-minded passion and depth of vision typically associated with the artists themselves.
Alisa Moussaieff has never strayed from her single-minded passion for diamonds, not only for their intrinsic value, but also their heritage, emotional and spiritual significance and life-enhancing qualities.
