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Example sentences for: single-mindedness

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The movie "has, like the killing-machine beast itself, the brutal efficiency of single-mindedness" (Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker ). Voight's overwrought performance has a "kitschy glory" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). It all harks back to the "kind of retro, eek!
Give the man his due: Few writers have the dedication and single-mindedness to work so hard and see so little.
This quatrain distills brilliantly both the vapidity and ruthless single-mindedness of the Clinton administration.
In the case of Prusiner's prize, the Nobel Committee has settled for enthusiasm and single-mindedness.
He blamed President Clinton "for not appointing a real warlord," and asked: "Are the peoples of the NATO states, whom the President and the Prime Minister have committed to this lacklustre war not entitled to ask for someone who can match Milosevic in single-mindedness and strength of character?"