industriousness

Example Sentences

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Constable wanted to give landscape subjects the stature of history painting so he constructed nature as a historical motif of English industriousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2023

Critics accused adherents of wasting their parents’ investment and abandoning the industriousness that helped build China into a superpower.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2023

Each mention his industriousness and his bachelor status.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2022

It instilled an "industriousness" and independent, determined spirit that helped him wade through the course work and the long hours, but it has also prepared him for the stresses and strains, he said.

From BBC • Jul. 16, 2021

And my mother’s education was the product of the riots of 1937 and the industriousness of Mr. Chance.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell