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Is not pole position – generally the fastest racing of the weekend – worthier of a point than fastest race lap, which is purely tactical?

Extensive development work is being conducted to give old clothes and textiles a worthier end.

It’s become a cliché to praise a filmmaker for loving his characters, as if doing so made said characters worthier of our interest, or if humanism were an inherent artistic virtue.

Some understandably worry that his later attempts to overturn the Constitution were far worthier subjects for indictment.

His recent release from an Iranian prison is worthier of celebration — and a greater boon to cinema — than anything or anyone in this year’s Oscar race.