Sentence examples for single-minded desire from inspiring English sources

Elliott, the historian, suggested it was available only to those who made it their single-minded desire.

And the longer she and her husband persist, the more Meili realizes that she is merely a vessel for his single-minded desire for a son.

But in certain passages, it paints a picture of someone with a single-minded desire to move to No. 1 status among financial services giants.

In the remarkable flood of giving since Sept. 11, millions of Americans have responded with a single-minded desire to help.

He said that many new players came into the game with a single-minded desire to make money, and lacked any sense of style and social grace, so he had dropped out of the circuit.

He told me of his escape from the Merrill Lynch offices in the World Financial Center, across the street from the twin towers, and of his single-minded desire to speak to his wife.

"He was single-minded in his desire to develop my gifts.

He has been single-minded about his desire to own the club, even when the Rangers board practically said they did not want him.

Even at that early age Chilton was almost single-minded in his desire to become a Formula 1 driver, but not at the expense of his education and he juggled his fledgling career with attending classes at the prestigious Ardingly College in Sussex.

Furthermore, the Bonin Islands are a typical example of the changing balance in Japan between bio-diversity and single-minded development, between the desire to conserve native species and the desire to satisfy human desires, and between the modesty and creativity of local peoples and the arrogance and insensitivity inherent in massive public works funding[ 7].

Last year, I interviewed Elon Musk in one of his most revealing public appearances, and he exposed a complex character that is both deadly serious yet comedic at times; driven yet rather sensitive; single-minded, and yet eclectic in his desire to change the world in multiple ways.