One of this year's most talked-about new artists, Bridges is a 26-year-old soul singer from Fort Worth, Texas, who looks back with single-minded devotion to R&B of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Then Michael, whose health had always been delicate, became seriously ill, and Sandy took care of him with single-minded devotion until he succumbed in early January of 2008.
Turns out he's a quiet, mild-mannered dude with a single-minded devotion to his craft.
Just as English cricketers regard with awe the Aussies' single-minded devotion to winning, so Labour strategists have found a new respect for the ruthless focus of Lynton Crosby, hired from Melbourne to direct the Conservative effort.
There's no doubt that R Kelly is the sole true heir to Marvin Gaye's love-god crown, a position secured through single-minded devotion to his mind's one track.
I may not agree with him on everything these days—his single-minded devotion to a consumption tax strikes me as regressive but his anti-tax, anti-war, anti drug war, pro criminal justice reform, anti-discrimination views are a potentially potent cocktail of policies.
Apuleius in the closing chapters of his novel usually called The Golden Ass in English describes how a young man is brought from mere consciousness of Isis as a famous goddess with certain well-known rites and attributes, to a single-minded devotion to her.
There are some generic "perilous undergarments" moments in the altogether more grindy The Call, an unashamed exploitation vehicle with a stripped-down B-movie aesthetic, which has a single-minded devotion to increasing the tension in pursuit of honest cheap thrills.
A compact, bearded man with a serious manner punctuated by a staccato chuckle, he shows a single-minded devotion to his craft.
Taking her claims to heart, Al plays a heroic role, championing Katherine's work and treating her with due respect but his heroism is a conditional and practical one, spurred by his single-minded devotion to the space program.
Frosted Yellow Willows tells the story of Wong's birth in her father's laundry in Los Angeles, her single-minded devotion to the movies, her rise to fame, her dealings with a crazy extortionist who threatened her family, her tireless war work.
