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So it is all the sadder that in late May the Detroit Institute began to be cruelly undermined as the city, once an epicenter of American industry and industriousness , hit bottom after years of mismanagement and shrinking population.
The choice was deliberate, giving him a chance to salute, as he put it, "blue-collar culture" and muscular industriousness , the values he has placed at the heart of his campaign.As French voters prepare to go to the polls on April 22nd for the first round of their two-stage presidential election, the campaign has strayed from the specifics of policy to a fierce contest over values and character.
Hence its colloquial name Herrgottsbescheiberle in Swabian: "little God-cheaters".Kilian Strauss Tübingen, Germany* SIR – Your splendid article tracing Swabian industriousness (Fleiss) and frugality back to Pietism captured some key characteristics of this tribe.
Lorraine, on France's eastern border, was once the centre of world steelmaking, and still projects muscular industriousness as a source of national pride.
Although he celebrated the idea of a functioning American aristocracy as a useful exemplar of industriousness and noblesse oblige, he spent his career lamenting that they had abdicated their responsibilities.
There he saw local corn farming and was deeply impressed by America's hospitality and industriousness.
Beneath the museum is Williams College's department of art history; even on this early morning there's a quiet thrum of industriousness from the professors and students underfoot.
Despite the emergence of buzzy new concepts such as "work-life balance" (a "phenomenon of below-average performers," according to Jack Welch), most people still see industriousness as a positive trait.
Mammals have constructed lake-forming dams; the American beaver is highly skilled at this, and its activities in this connection have established it as a symbol of industriousness.
Much of Germany's post-World War II success has been the result of the renowned industriousness and self-sacrifice of its people, about which novelist Günter Grass, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, remarked, "To be a German is to make the impossible possible".
His parents' character and religiosity and the trauma of his early childhood left an indelible mark on the young Herbert, instilling in him the self-reliance, industriousness , and moral concern for the needy, abandoned, and downtrodden that would characterize him for the rest of his life (his favourite book was David Copperfield).
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The primary grammatical function of "industriousness " is as a noun , typically used to denote the quality or characteristic of being industrious. As supported by Ludwig, it describes a dedication to hard work and productivity.
Expression frequency: Very common
