Sentence examples for what was worthwhile from inspiring English sources

Instead of replacing the old tower with an entirely new building, the designers saw what was worthwhile about the existing architecture and added to it.

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson said in tribute to their friend, who died of pneumonia as a complication of the leukaemia with which she was disgnosed in 2006: "Nora Ephron who knew what was important to know: how things worked, what was worthwhile, who was fascinating and why.

Cameron says what is worthwhile is the massive fall in unemployment.

Publish and be damned, and let people judge for themselves what is useful, what is worthwhile or necessary.

Now, there are so many toys out there, she said, that parents are hard pressed to discern what is junk and what is worthwhile.

But this neutron bomb has come along and this sonofabitch has got this ATTITUDE... about what is worthwhile in the world and what is worth preserving.

Mr. Klinkenborg reminds us of how Martha Stewart imbued us with a sense of what is worthwhile and beautiful in everything around us.

In practice each number looks more or less like the others, and it becomes impossible to digest it all or to determine what is worthwhile.

"Powerlessness corrupts," he wrote, because it crushes out of all proportion our sense of what is worthwhile and possible in our own lives and the lives of those around us.

The question of how one should live, what one's values should be, what is worthwhile and what is unacceptable in our relationships with each other, and what matters most in our conduct and our aims, is a vital matter on which everyone should reflect.

"The specific socialization in academic institutions leads to a very narrow sense of what is worthwhile employment, … and that is mostly only academic work," Müller says.