Pretty amazing that our industriousness will be our downfall if we don't counter with more smurtz than what put us here in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [PegasusNews.com stories] Reference
(49 percent), "high professionalism, competence" (45 percent), "industriousness" (40 percent), as well as "initiative, integrity, and culture" (by 21 to 26 percent). From Wordnik.com. [RIA Novosti] Reference
I admire your industriousness, among other things. From Wordnik.com. [Fidel Castro's 8 Aug News Conference] Reference
My hyper-active industriousness also revealed this. From Wordnik.com. [luvabeans Diary Entry] Reference
This meant rugged endurance, ingenuity, and industriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Beth Weinstock: SelfMatters: When Was the Last Time You Listened to Silence?] Reference
Eastasia by the fecundity and industriousness of its inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
Paul was noted for industriousness, perseverance, and innovation. From Wordnik.com. [History of Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge] Reference
It was lunch hour before the doctor dared interrupt such industriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Whenever I want to draw a comparison of the industriousness of our people. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Speaks at Japanese Garden Dedication] Reference
Or he saw them doing busywork solely to impress him with their industriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Why Companies Don't Need Headquarters] Reference
Cousin Charley's seeming industriousness had reinstated him in Lin's good graces. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
I believe in the power of the synergy between industriousness and the helping hand. From Wordnik.com. [I believe in the power of the synergy between industriousness and the helping hand] Reference
But can you afford to fall in love with someone with no ambition or industriousness?. From Wordnik.com. [Christine Whelan: 8 Tips for Recession Romance] Reference
Hertasi were amazing to him - shy ghosts with astonishing speed and industriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Owlflight]
It had to be a centre of efficiency, industriousness and thoroughness, Prof Asmal said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
They are performing, you know, with a lot of calmness and strength and industriousness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2003] Reference
It is a mentality of simultaneous industriousness and laziness, of earnestness and frivolousness. From Wordnik.com. [Political Dissonance] Reference
How did these germinal forms of courage, prudence, industriousness, etc, first come into existence?. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
No other structure better represents American industriousness and ingenuity than the Brooklyn Bridge. From Wordnik.com. [Five Best] Reference
Unfortunately, we are too far from the average industriousness and working spirit of the Japanese people. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Speaks at Japanese Garden Dedication] Reference
Even determinedly modern or postmodern critics will give him points for industriousness and manual dexterity. From Wordnik.com. [Arts Extra: Less Is Mueck] Reference
It would be nice to see at least a little effort and industriousness behind this otherwise quite tasty product. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Maxwell Apter: NYC Burrito Challenge III: Dos Toros Taquería] Reference
While there's certainly something to be said for the industriousness and work ethic of our culture, we lack balance. From Wordnik.com. [An Appeal: Please enjoy art] Reference
Army Archerd loves Hollywood, and he has championed its glamour, generosity, and industriousness for five and a half decades. From Wordnik.com. [Sheila Weller: Army Archerd, In Memoriam] Reference
Hunger and thirst imperiously check the tendency to laziness, or heedlessness, and stimulate to industriousness and prudence. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Virtue came to mean not energy and exuberance but prudence, thrift, meekness, chastity, temperance, industriousness and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Ideas for modern living: virtue] Reference
Potato had a clear concept of what relationship a farmer should have to his land, and a German-type industriousness was fundamental. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
The endless stream of Erap jokes -- usually about his lack of intelligence or industriousness -- only endeared him more to the masses. From Wordnik.com. [Fall From Grace] Reference
Japanese laborers became famous for their industriousness, frugality, and willingness to work closely with management to ensure success. From Wordnik.com. [1975] Reference
Courage and prudence and industriousness and temperance in its members are assets of the tribe, and are included among its requirements. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
I am in awe at the industriousness that the plastic mavens have applied to creating clever ways to store, organize, manage and track stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Leland: Are You On A Bridge To Somewhere?] Reference
In mythology and in literature, bees have always represented what is best in human nature: industriousness, cooperation, sweetness, the soul. From Wordnik.com. [Ron Dembo: Not With a Buzz But a Whimper] Reference
Still, I suspect the inescapable spirit of industriousness Carr attributes to the emerging generation of journalists applies to Manhattan itself. From Wordnik.com. [Maegan Carberry: Did Carr's Column Mark the End of Manhattan's Journalistic Reign?] Reference
While once we were threatened by the sheer number of them, now we're economically threatened by the sheer industriousness and relentlessness of them. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: Out of Tragedy, a New Cultural Understanding of China] Reference
In that address, Mr. Ma lauded a return to "Taiwan's traditional core values of benevolence, righteousness, diligence, honesty, generosity and industriousness.". From Wordnik.com. [The Culture of Taiwan] Reference
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