studiousness

Example Sentences

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And yet the very skills gay people had to develop to survive — studiousness, compartmentalization, discretion, itinerancy — made them uniquely skilled, Kirchick points out, to sensitive tasks like espionage or high-level advising.

From New York Times • May 22, 2022

Now I think of my 14-year-old self buying fancy school supplies, the nice notebooks, the nice binders, and cringe at how materialistic I was being under the guise of studiousness.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2020

To Stammen’s eye, Paddack combined the cerebral studiousness of Stephen Strasburg with the bug-eyed intensity of Max Scherzer.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2019

They lacked the level of thoughtfulness, studiousness – really, borderline sociological examination – that shows now share.

From The Guardian • Nov. 14, 2016

It’s not that Bobby rejected the studiousness displayed by his sister and mother.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady