It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

But still, the proposition is worth examination.

Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

In proportion to the degradation of his moral worth, is the increase of his worth to them ''.

The game is not worth the ammunition it would cost.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

one who is thoroughly human, who affects no dignity, and who is endowed with real ability, genuine worth, and sterling honesty -- all dedicated to secure the best interests of the country he has loved and served so long.

Last year a boy he knows and helped in Journalism won the Thoroughbred Racing Ass'n Scholarship which is worth $10,000.

The Great Smoky Mountains is another area of the South well worth a visit.

The Black Hills Passion Play is produced every summer and is a pageant worth seeing and shooting.

Consider what you have to earn to be able to spend the $3,000 and your building time is well worth it.

It costs two to three times as much to remove a BTU in summer as it does to add one in winter, so every solitary BTU is worth attention.

If you have an annual or regular physical examination program, is it worth what it is costing you??

Like primitive numbers in mathematics, the entire axiological framework is taken to rest upon its operational worth.

But what is the operational worth of a sociology which mimetically reproduces the idea of physical models??

In this connection it is worth noting how names are sometimes obtained.

In the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra, the Buddha insists that while pondering upon Dharma is vital, one must then relinquish fixation on words and letters, as these are utterly divorced from liberation and the Buddha-nature.

The novel deals with its theme of self-reflection also on the level of narratology in that its main topic of mindreading is presented by an omniscient narrator ; a minor ironic twist consists of the novel-within-a-novel motif with the fictitious novelist Helen Reed pondering about the old-fashioned genre of the epistolary novel while her thoughts are presented the very form of letters / emails.

In 1881, the Swedish magazine Ny Illustrerad Tidning published Viktor Rydberg's poem " Tomten ", where the tomte is alone awake in the cold Christmas night, pondering the mysteries of life and death.

The latter term, meaning ‘ witness ,’ best indicates the use that Kabir and his followers envisioned for these poems: “ As direct evidence of the Truth, a sākhī is ... meant to be memorized ... A sākhī is ... meant to evoke the highest Truth .” As such, memorizing, reciting, and thus pondering over these utterances constitutes, for Kabir and his followers, a path to spiritual awakening.

" " Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown " is the final line in a monologue spoken by Henry IV in Act III, Scene i, of Henry IV, part 2 wherein Henry is pondering how sleep comes to even the most humble peasant easier than it does to the great.

That is, the instinct that there is something worth knowing, perhaps more than can ever be learned, especially the spiritual sciences that most people spend a lifetime pondering.

But despite this wide array of talents, he is prone to frequent misunderstandings, on one occasion even singing the alphabet as one big long word ( from the song called " ABC-DEF-GHI ," pronounced " ab-keddef-gajihkel-monop-quristuv-wixyz "), pondering what it could ever mean.

He is also clever at other times, for example, in " The One With Ross ’ s Teeth ", while the other five friends sat around at Central Perk pondering why their bosses don't like them, it was Joey who pointed out, " Maybe it's because you're all sitting around here at 11: 30 on a Wednesday.

It is intended to invite people to take a look around the island and the sea, pondering over world peace.

After his father's death, Ban spent a period of time pondering what path he should pursue in life, eventually composing a long fu on his situation entitled " Fu on Communicating with the Hidden " (), which is famous as one the earliest known fu used to discuss philosophical questions.

While pondering on the blanking and re-use of such tape, Anderson made a connection to the human brain's electrical activities, explaining, " I read somewhere that the human brain is controlled by electrical impulses and how thoughts are stored electronically.

Sometimes this pondering is whimsical-at Morpheus's wake, a slightly drunk Gadling converses with the centaur Chiron: ' I once worked out that I'd spent over six years all told, just pissing.

The ensemble cast of characters form two subplots with Jeff Spicoli ( Sean Penn ), an irresponsible stoned surfer, facing off against uptight history teacher Mr. Hand ( Ray Walston ), and Stacy's brother, Brad ( Judge Reinhold ), a senior who works at a series of entry-level jobs in order to pay off his car, and who is pondering easing out of his relationship with his girlfriend.

Brad is pondering how to end his relationship with Lisa so he can play the field during his senior year.

This is the why question about life which philosophers and theologians have been pondering in vain for ages, and is a counterpart to the how question about nature which engineers have been able to resolve successfully.

After solving this puzzle, some insight into the nature of communication can be gained by pondering whether the meaningful silence of prisoner C violates the " No communication " rule ( given that communication is usually defined as the " transfer of information ").

He is a dreamer and deep thinker, with discursive pondering about " the void ," Zen, and life.

Also, given Illinois ' proximity to Missouri and shared market for St. Louis lawyers, the state is currently pondering adopting the UBE, as well, and could become the first of the " big market " states to adopt the test.

( In the final sculpture, a miniature of the statue is waiting atop the gates, pondering the hellish fate of those beneath him.

While pondering who the Head Vampire is, Sam witnesses Max's dog, Thorn, attack Lucy when she tries to go and apologize to Max for running out on their date.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

Now I wish to enter the American market, where the competition is very strong.

`` Now that is a very nice, a very nice '', he murmured to himself, back in his corner.

The Bourbon economic philosophy, moreover, is not very different from that of Northern conservatives.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.

What appears here is shorter than what he actually said but very close to his own words.

When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.

The career of Charles 12, is obviously very similar to that of Napoleon.

he is very close to being a mental case.

This, however, cannot be done by a community whose very experience of truth is confused and incoherent: it has no absolute standard, and consequently cannot distinguish the absolute from the contingent.

His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.

What is more, the legends have become so sacrosanct that the very habit of self-examination or self-criticism smells of low treason, and men who practice it are defeatists and unpatriotic scoundrels.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

`` Dear Miss Steichen: It is a very good letter you send me -- softens the intensity of this guerilla warfare I am carrying on up here.

Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.

This is very uncommon ''.

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

I know you are very busy now, you are writing a great deal & your book is coming out, isn't it??