Exempel på single-minded

• There are few beings on earth more prescriptive and single-minded than copy-editors and proof-readers.

• It will also certainly involve redirecting the single-minded pursuit of abstraction promoted by the academy.

• The brilliant scientist or the virtuoso violinist may find the most rewarding life to be one of single-minded pursuit of one goal.

• It lies in part in the power and nuance of single-minded argument.

• It helped reassure him of his family's single-minded fidelity.

• Is it really as 'wellestablished' and single-minded as suggested?

• It suggests that viewing the patient's body as a battlefield is appropriate, as are short-term, single-minded, tactical goals.

• After all, a single-minded preoccupation with pragmatic use is as one-sided and limited as an exclusive preoccupation with semantic meaning.

• They place the burden of blame on colonial administrators, who are said to have been prompted by a single-minded policy of divide-and-rule.

• This is certainly the most ambitious or most single-minded of the available strategies.

• It is par ticularly the production of indeterminacy of readings by these ambiguous choices that most clearly defies a single-minded or inductive form-to-function utterance interpretation in sequential analyses.

• Historical research, moreover, ideally consists of something more than sifting the records of the past in a single-minded search for data that have a direct bearing on current concerns.

• One is the single-minded pursuit of the photorealistic image: photographs do not communicate buildings very well, and architects have rarely used hyper-realistic images to promote their schemes.

• Of course, it would stretch the concept of 'balance' to admit that someone whose life is in single-minded pursuit of a single goal counts as having it.

• Imagine a person who is so socially awkward that friendship is impossible, and so single-minded and determined that constant pursuit of a single goal never causes boredom or anxiety.