Sentence examples for singlemindedness from inspiring English sources

"'He's the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919.' It never occurred to me that one man could play with the faith of fifty million people with the singlemindedness of a burglar blowing a safe".

Epstein's singlemindedness as a maker had catastrophic consequences.

Read in the context of Bernhard's career, they reveal one of his most characteristic traits: a remarkable singlemindedness.

Those last three words were, strictly speaking, unnecessary, but they conveyed something about the stubbornness and singlemindedness that boxing demands.

I think I had the same with directing: there were these people who had a singlemindedness about what they wanted to do that I didn't".

The observation, which arrives early in David Gilbert's richly entertaining new novel, states succinctly the theme that, for all its elaborations of plot, & Sons pursues with ferocious singlemindedness.

It's this singlemindedness that has enabled Dave to turn Wellhouse into the UK's leading manufacturer of compact motorhomes in just over a decade.

Picture the dedication and singlemindedness associated with being an entrepreneur; now see that imagination and tenacity, that eccentrically endearing quality of being consumed by a project, directed towards social change.

It's this kind of singlemindedness that has won him some of his greatest victories.

Poliakoff won a place to study history at Cambridge, and his decision to quit long before graduating was probably considered insane at the time, but judging by the singlemindedness of his subsequent career, self-doubt will not have troubled his decision.

Morse succeeded and is now remembered as "the father of the telegraph" partly thanks to his singlemindedness it was 12 years, for example, before he secured money from Congress to build his first telegraph line but also for technical reasons.