What makes life truly worthwhile for the majority of Americans is high-quality education, affordable health care and the opportunity to enjoy leisure time with family and friends.
We need big projects for which government support would be truly worthwhile; we shouldn't rely simply on a revival of consumer spending to create more jobs.
Like those ephemeral works, this is destined to be remembered as one of the truly worthwhile and significant moments of modern British art.
If her prison memoir – working title, Prisonomics – is as serious and insightful, she will be giving something truly worthwhile back to society.
Without giving quarter to violence even against pubescent graffiti, we must ask what sorts of speech make the defence of freedom of expression truly worthwhile.
Although di Robilant is a fine, solid researcher and a thoughtful, conscientious interpreter, he is no stylist, and any chance of this flimsy tale adding up to a truly worthwhile book dies on a tide of anachronism and cliché.
If this signals the end of the Territorial soldier it will leave a very bitter taste for me and many others, who have devoted years to what we believe to be a truly worthwhile cause.
This is my job forever.' " He compared his situation to that of Voltaire's Candide, who, after enduring a litany of absurd horrors in a society plagued by fanaticism and incompetence, concludes that the only truly worthwhile activity is tending his garden.
For it is Adams's immensely powerful score, easily the finest thing he has composed in more than two decades, that makes the whole experience truly worthwhile; its gut-wrenching harmonies, fiercely insistent rhythms and sudden moments of tingling melodic purity provide the solidity that the text and the staging so badly need.
One successful candidate, 21-year-old Francis Goodburn from Leeds, who is completing a maths and computer science degree at Oxford, said: "The two things I want from a job are to know what I am doing is truly worthwhile and to take on varied, challenging work every day".
