single-minded

Example Sentences

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It inspired the music site Pitchfork to note the single-minded intensity of this “possible madman and authority-critiquing refusenik that was marginalized in his own time, only to later be viewed as a seer.”

From New York Times

It freed him from the need to resolve every last inconsistency, and Choi seemed at peace, distanced from the single-minded obsessiveness that had been its own kind of prison.

From Los Angeles Times

Powell’s appetite for basketball left an impression on the similarly single-minded Leonard.

From Los Angeles Times

Pockets of thick fog along the road could not obscure the latest advances in Israel's massive and single-minded project to settle Jews on land Palestinians want for a state.

From BBC

Critics say the administration should be doing more to call out China’s more mercantilist approach to the continent, one whose single-minded focus on money hurts African recipients in other ways.

From Washington Times