A flexible engineering system had been introduced after considerable debate about the worthwhileness of the investment.

"I often doubt, I often doubt, the worthwhileness of reason.

"It is you," the telepathic voice continued, "who make the primary decision as to the worthwhileness of each consumer commodity newly introduced on the market.

Their artistry was high, but he denied the worthwhileness of artistry when divorced from humanness.

- worthwhileness.

Ms. Wasserstein preferred to define the search for worthwhileness by accomplished human beings, giving equal time to both sexes.

After reviewing a great deal of research on how feelings of competence affect academic ability and achievement, he concludes, "my doubts about the worthwhileness of this work are growing.

Thus, both radicals and élitists have severely shaken the early certainty about the worthwhileness of attempts to disseminate liberal culture as widely as teachers' skills and school conditions permitted.

However, given that these effects, and the effects they lead to, might well continue onwards in time to a point when no sentient being is around to tally it all up, it's a bit hard to give a final grade of "worthwhileness" for any action at all I suppose.