Sentence examples for worthwhile in itself from inspiring English sources

I doubt I would otherwise have encountered the other visitor and that was worthwhile in itself.

Intrepid, a World War II-era aircraft carrier, is worthwhile in itself.

He is not arguing that knowledge is a bad thing, but pointing out that its pursuit, however worthwhile in itself, can be a distraction from existential issues.

It took some time for training in such sea-going vessels to be seen as worthwhile in itself; a view reinforced in Britain by the ending in 1960 of compulsory military service, and with it, some feared, the virtues it was believed to teach.That belief is not stupid, but there is a virtue to be learned in working a sailing ship that no parade-ground sergeant-major can instil.

Philosophers have said comparatively little about trust being worthwhile in itself as opposed to worthwhile because of what it produces, or because of what accompanies it.

Improving our models of transcription factor binding preferences is worthwhile in itself.

That is a worthwhile end in itself".

And finally, community participation is a worthwhile end in itself.

Yet St Johnstone's manager, Tommy Wright, bristles when it is put to him that reaching this showpiece game is a worthwhile achievement in itself.

Mr. Turner of the F.S.A. argues that diminishing the turnover of the financial sector would be a worthwhile objective in itself to reduce the amount of "socially useless activity".

"The principal reaction to the experience of Civil War seems to have been less to try to enroll the new science to a specific viewpoint than to aspire to its 'establishment' as a worthwhile step in itself," Michael Hunter wrote in "Establishing the New Science," his 1989 history of the Royal Society.