Sentence examples similar to single minded striving from inspiring English sources

Elite faculty, on the other hand, generally perceive only at the end their careers--and to their intense disappointment--that decades of single-minded striving have not won a perch in the "pantheon".

His stubborn genius also represents, in its 70 years of continuous artistic creation, the prototype of the single-minded artist, striving only to complete a given task.

He is single minded in his actions and policies.

The Drosophila single minded transcription factor is a master developmental regulator (Nambu et al., 1991).

All of these increasingly severe jump-cuts as the symphony goes on might well be in service of Beethoven's compositional credo, that "even when I am composing instrumental music my custom is always to keep the whole in view" (which is decidedly not the same as a striving for a single-minded compositional unity).

And when in striving to win they seem a little too single-minded, like the golfer Nick Faldo in his pomp, we issue a kind of collective wince.

Mature, single-minded and respected.

"I was totally single-minded".

"They are very single-minded.

His pursuit was single-minded.

I was pretty single-minded.