This considerable bloodletting has left her with a single-minded desire for Christian service, which now centers on Bishop Wade.

Months of confinement in the stockade had dulled his senses, and he hadn't counted on Mary's single-minded desire to escape him.

Given Joe Saul's (get the name's biblical reference) single-minded desire for a child ("Like a cat on hot rocks"; was Tennessee Williams listening?)

Darius, who'd sought the perfect statue for three thousand years with such single-minded desire as no mortal could ever comprehend, now was faced with an undeniable truth: Be careful what you wish for.

In the remarkable flood of giving since Sept. 11, millions of Americans have responded with a single-minded desire to help.

In their single-minded desire to serve sentence, the torture appalled as well as injured them.

Of the three brothers' sections, Jason's is the most straightforward, reflecting his single-minded desire for material wealth.

Faces in many cases filled with fear, or, worse, worshipful devotion to something he could not see, but with eyes that showed little or no thought, just an achingly single-minded desire to please.

A wave of hatred rushed over him, and he forgot his despair in the single-minded desire to slay the murderous Rider.

Elliott, the historian, suggested it was available only to those who made it their single-minded desire.