The phrase "industrious man" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe a man who is hardworking, diligent, and industrious. Example: "John's success in business can be attributed to his determination and strong work ethic. He is known as an industrious man who never shies away from a challenge."
Someone less kind (or more rigorous) might call it lazy -- a surprising trait in an obviously industrious man.
But one 21st-century quality that Nadin, a briskly friendly, relentlessly industrious man, seems to lack entirely is a sense of irony.
Several shopkeepers said they knew Mr. Vahidipour as an industrious man who worked more than 10 hours a day, at least six days a week, often locking the store by himself after the sun had set.
"His nature seemed to change," Vasari wrote, "from a hardworking, industrious man he became slothful and negligent, and having labored constantly when he was competing with Raffaello and his fortune was low, he ceased to work as soon as he had enough".
"Then he asked himself if it was not a serious thing that he, a workman, could not have found work and that he, an industrious man, should have been without bread" (p. 88 of our edition of Les Miserables).
Gore remembers this, about Jean Valjean: "Then he asked himself if it was not a serious thing that he, a workman, could not have found work and that he, an industrious man, should have been without bread".
It's not every day we get a chance to sit down with one of the world's richest and most industrious men.
It evokes images of early and simpler times in which industrious men and women built our country into what it is today.
Michael had succeeded in starting over as an industrious working man.
At Sal's Famous Pizzeria, the proprietor (Danny Aiello) verbally spars with the black clientele, his quarrelsome sons (John Turturro and Richard Edson) and his less than industrious delivery man, Mookie (Mr. Lee).
Therefore, an industrious young man, if he put his mind to it, could add a DC adapter from Radio Shack.
