drivenness

The world rewards that kind of drivenness; most of the successful men reading this book are driven.

Europeans snickered that this drivenness kept Americans from enjoying the "finer things" (whatever they are).

"The upside of their drivenness is their orientation to their goal, their ability to focus," he said.

McCauley and Hanna share a singularity of intelligence and a drivenness, but everything else about their lives is different."

Throughout, the atmosphere is too casual, and in addition to a grave lack of frantic drivenness, there is a marked absence of the erotic.

His works manifest the vitality, wildness, drivenness, and hysterical quality of the urban setting, ever expanding to the point of explosion.

Frightened and raw, I relied on Shanghai's spirit, its drivenness and buoyancy, for solace.

Boundaries in Dating the relationship resolves itself, the couple is typified by a drivenness to become highly committed, a process that takes less than a normal amount of time.

But in the meantime, I'd like to suggest that there's something more at work here than relative levels of skill or laziness or drivenness or privilege, though all that clearly plays a role.

And a potent blend of drivenness and casual insolence was struck by Miss Jenickova, Mr. Kodet, Miss Tryznova and Petr Zuska.

In the series started by Neverness, David Zindell probes the nature of future humanity in "an extremely ambitious tale...The young protagonist has all the necessary complexity and drivenness to occupy centre-stage 'cosmogony opera'."

Comparison to Whitman For Ross Lockridge as a young man worked with a drivenness, day and night, trying always to be bigger than big, including not only all of the mythology of America in its pastoral singing, but all of the mythology of all time.