And a short trip to my hotel — maybe four or five tube stops' worth — became, instead, an hour-long ride across the river and back, with a driver who grumbled that the preparations for the Games had been done "on the cheap," using "tents and temporary things".
Our self-worth becomes contingent upon that one (or few) areas which we hang on to, to safeguard our fragile sense of self-worth.
We see how her sense of self-worth (or, for that matter, score-worth) becomes dependent on knowing that she out-scored her friends.
Self-worth becomes an issue as time goes by and they begin to realize they are limited and can no longer do the things they once could.
In the absence of an absolute imperative to preserve life, the idea of a life not worth living becomes very easy to accept.
For investors with a smaller net worth, liquidity becomes even more critical.
Numbers like net worth can become inadequate shorthand.
"Net worth has become more concentrated in recent decades," Levine writes.
Consequently, the range of matters worth discussing became too extensive for oral transmission and for the solitary speaker.
