Adjective : a worthwhile book.    From Dictionary.com. 

Any change to the law, he added, would result in the "worthwhileness" of some lives being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Today] Reference

The more he thought of the purposes, sweet, high, and disinterested, that moved her, the more was he pained at a sense of frivolity, or, at least, at a want of "worthwhileness" in his own aims.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faith Doctor A Story of New York] Reference

Soon after his return to civilian life, Gen. D.ight D. Eisenhower spoke of the worthwhileness of "living dangerously.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference

Different versions of this theory will have different accounts of the appropriate mental states and of worthwhileness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Meaning of Life] Reference

That makes my trust in the worthwhileness of my life possible even when the visible evidence thereof isn't very persuasive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

We return to my opening point: what will we be heard to be saying about the worthwhileness of life under certain conditions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill] Reference

Attached to this, Canadians are also questioning the worthwhileness of direct government incentives to business as a means of stimulating the growth they desire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business-Government Relations In A Changing Public Opinion Environment] Reference

Starting with a somewhat idealistic view of these things, convinced of their worthwhileness for their own sake, I came, in time, to regard them with a more realistic eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Factor—A Personal Story] Reference

Have we the will and the guts to make our free society expand and flourish and prosper, and have we the imagination and fire of spirit to evoke in our society a real sense of worthwhileness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back From Russia] Reference

A lot of the time this doesn't seem to be much of an issue, perhaps; but there are periods when the overall worthwhileness of a system begins to look a lot less persuasive, sometimes quite rapidly, and things start to change.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Richard Dimbleby Lecture 2002] Reference

Most of the ones I'm choosing are pre-1990, since I figure most after that period can be found elsewhere, not to mention the worthwhileness of the singles seem to dramatically decline at that point (market saturation, I think).    From Wordnik.com.  [oatcake Diary Entry] Reference

It is important to believe that a difference can be made; it is equally important to keep hold of a sense of the worthwhileness of action and witness even when power actually to effect the changes desired eludes you - when you fail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nicholas Hinton Lecture, given at the AGM of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations] Reference

A political culture that makes no allowance for motivations beyond profit and security is one that makes no allowance for criticism, for fundamental questions about the worthwhileness of what happens to be current and reasonably useful.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Freedom and Slavery' - Wilberforce Lecture 2007] Reference

Once the possibility is there, it will not only be utilised by the smallish number of high-profile hard cases but will also create an ethical framework in which the worthwhileness of some lives is undermined by the legal expression of what feels like public impatience with protracted dying and 'unproductive' lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archbishop's Presidential Address] Reference

Today we celebrate not only a marriage but the relationship between monarch and people of which also that marriage is a symbol: a relationship in which we see what levels of commitment are possible for someone upheld by a clear sense of God's calling and enabling, and the corresponding vision of the worthwhileness of this national and international family that is the Commonwealth, which has been the recipient of such unswerving service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebration to mark the Diamond Wedding Anniversary of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh] Reference

The committee in question had originally been organized to protest against some abuses in the tax department; but since then, from election to election, it had been drifting from one subject to another, finding an occasional evidence of its worthwhileness in some newspaper comment and the frightened reformation of some minor political official who ended, usually, by taking refuge behind the skirts of some higher political power — in the last reaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Financier] Reference

I often doubt, I often doubt, the worthwhileness of reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 24] Reference

The worthwhileness of the matter isn't measured by 'winning' or the chance of winning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moderate Voice] Reference

Their artistry was high, but he denied the worthwhileness of artistry when divorced from humanness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 27] Reference

Even the morning service came back with a sense of worthwhileness as he recalled it in the semi-consciousness of approaching sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cow Puncher] Reference

But he stressed that his agency isn't out to determine the worthwhileness of the project-only whether the terms of the grant are being followed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

As well, I'd like (if what I learn proves it) provide convincing evidence of the worthwhileness of keeping closer to the original replacement schedule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask MetaFilter] Reference

We go forward, therefore, with inextinguishable faith in the value of what we are battling for, and in the worthwhileness of all our efforts and endurances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty] Reference

For of all poets the world has known, perhaps none have so perfectly voiced the cry of the human heart when it questions the why and the wherefore and the worthwhileness of its own mysterious existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rhodesian] Reference

"Once the possibility is there, it will ... create an ethical framework in which the worthwhileness of some lives is undermined by the legal expression of what feels like public impatience with protracted dying and 'unproductive' lives.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news] Reference

Also, the findings of this study showed students who experienced positive situations with reading were more motivated to find intrinsic motivators such as open mindedness, worthwhileness, self regulated attention and alleviation of boredom to keep them interested in reading (Oldfather, 1994).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jakarta Post Breaking News] Reference

'Once the possibility is there, it will not only be utilised by the smallish number of high-profile hard cases but will also create an ethical framework in which the worthwhileness of some lives is undermined by the legal expression of what feels like public impatience with protracted dying and' unproductive 'lives.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

"Once the possibility is there it will … create an ethical framework in which the worthwhileness of some lives is undermined by the legal expression of what feels like public impatience with protracted dying and 'unproductive' lives … the legal initiating of a process whose sole or main purpose is to end life is again to cross a moral boundary and to enter some very dangerous territory in practical terms.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

There is a vital worthwhileness in this book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack London's Nonfiction Collection of Unpublished Book Forwards] Reference

I mean, already HA and iran were their source of pride, power and sense of worthwhileness, with syria seeing value in influence via HA. not to mention that dialogue (bayan wizari or whatever they called it, iirc) did take place. i don't know though. you could very well be right. why didn't anyone protest, then? didn't people see the cedar revolution slipping away from their hands? and building a democracy while there are sect-aligned weapons looming about, is simply not a workable option … "Unquote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Neighbours] Reference

I mean, already HA and iran were their source of pride, power and sense of worthwhileness, with syria seeing value in influence via HA. not to mention that dialogue (bayan wizari or whatever they called it, iirc) did take place. i don't know though. you could very well be right. why didn't anyone protest, then? didn't people see the cedar revolution slipping away from their hands? and building a democracy while there are sect-aligned weapons looming about, is simply not a workable option … i've already mapped the different sect boundaries in egypt, iraq and syria to a fairly good extent (although there are always surprises, especially when it comes to iraq). they all have their special uniqueness and structure, it's a pity how little the israeli public knows about them (but then again, they can barely discern one palestinian from the other …). what will be lebanon's fate, then? federalism? syrian 'protectorate'? another civil war?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Neighbours] Reference