My swimming pupil is diligent and actually succeeds in conquering a few yards on her own.
The calligraphy translates as: 'diligent, rigorous, practical and realistic, and creative'.
Despite a diligent search no peridotite or other deepseated xenoliths have been encountered.
This biography is very well researched, and the authors have been extremely diligent in unearthing many previously obscure facts about their subject.
The processes of urbanization, local politics and strategies of social control have been charted through detailed and diligent empirical work.
It was the hard-working, entrepreneurial, charitable middling townsman, and his equally diligent wife; the characters who now, quite self-consciously, occupied this typical urban middling order.
He was the most diligent investigator of the peculiar, and the most exalted philosopher.
Here the central tragic theme is the muchlamented metamorphosis of the seventeenth-century business woman or diligent housekeeper into the nineteenth-century parasite.