Sentence examples similar to great assiduity from inspiring English sources

The article briefly summarised his lifetime and praised Conroy for "considerable shrewdness, no small knowledge of human nature and a very winning address" as well as "devoting himself with great zeal and assiduity" to members of the Royal Family.

And Shaw goes on to note that the ferocity of the wolf "is greatly mitigated by an early education; of which the individual specimen from which the present figure was taken, is a remarkable instance;" it had, he wrote, "been rendered in a great degree tame and gentle by the assiduity of the late Sir Ashton Lever".

Our playful ­proposal can be read as a gesture in this direction: Great ironists make lousy zealots, and thus the humanities, the great enemy of zealotry, attend with particular assiduity to the delicate ­registers of irony.

Raffles is praised for his "unwearied zeal and assiduity".

His assiduity made the book hard-going.

I probably expended rather more assiduity in his case, yes.

In print, he was circumspect: "Her good sense, assiduity, tenderness, and vigilance overcame every obstacle".

In part, they derived from a characteristic mixture of public flair and private assiduity.

This appears to have left her with an excessive regard for politeness and assiduity.

(It was then, he writes, that "Americans reached the peak of their alcoholic assiduity").

Fewer still have shown his assiduity at keeping up with the variety and sheer quantity of new art.