fixed purpose
Example Sentences
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“The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run,” declared the self-destructive Captain Ahab, concerning his pursuit of Moby Dick.
From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2020
Most men and women who rise above or venture outside the norm turn out to have a bewildering variety of gifts and defects, and they blunder as often as they pursue a fixed purpose.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2020
The 85-year-old gaffer who got a pass from the geriatrics ward of Limerick City Home and Hospital last week hobbled down the street with the same fixed purpose as many another Irishman, sick or well.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last April, Warren sought to take himself out of the running with a statement that he went to the Supreme Court with the fixed purpose of leaving politics permanently.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he recorded in his autobiography, “I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
