| Each lesson has some moral content such as the need to care properly for creatures and the virtue of industriousness. |
| Behaviour can be shaped, as evidenced by the industriousness of the Japanese. |
| It bustled about the big steamer with an industriousness that seemed almost frantic. |
| They greatly impress me with their intellectual and behavior-analytic skills and their consistent industriousness. |
| Social mobility, or at least the hope for it, creates industriousness, sacrifice, and personal financial savings. |
| Helene employed household help, but Cullman's German housewives prided themselves on their industriousness and housekeeping without servants. |
