The journey he takes is harrowing and heartfelt, the teenager's single-minded ambition comes at a terrible cost to his mind and his family, and the agony continues long into adulthood.
Suddenly, "Flanby" revealed an iron core of single-minded ambition.
This can result in an earnest, single-minded ambition to join the established ranks.
His single-minded ambition contains a streak of petty vindictiveness, and he has alienated many who were once enthusiastic supporters.
One thing's certain: everyone seems pleased - relieved even - that games of such single-minded ambition are still being created.
Each installment of the show is a self-contained portrait, tracing the arc of an individual's life from hungry mortal to culinary icon: childhood influences, adolescent traumas, the triumphs and pitfalls of single-minded ambition.
Making his judgment, the lead judge said: "Anyone acquainted with the facts of the case would wish to pay tribute to the claimant's single-minded ambition to gather the benefits of higher education".
Cecil's effete, theatrical manner might have suggested an artistic lifestyle rather than a role in a competitive, cut-throat sport, but single-minded ambition enabled him to succeed.
Mr. Leahy then suggested that the president of the Senate take his gavel and use it to perform an act that, while not technically impossible in anatomical terms, would certainly be considered both unseemly and unhygienic, and which would require an unusual combination of single-minded ambition and physical relaxation.
His single-minded ambition, his outsider background with a foreign-born father who did not attend France's elite schools and an energetic readiness to take on received wisdom: there are echoes here of a younger Mr Sarkozy, who also made his name as an action-man interior minister.
When we last saw Bella, in the Twilight series, her single-minded ambition was eternal life with Edward Cullen.
