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Sisyphean

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to Sisyphus
  2. both extremely effortful and futile

How To Use Sisyphean In A Sentence

  • He catalogs Jimmy Carter's Sisyphean struggle to make energy independence a central issue during his presidency.
  • Is ufology a sisyphean endeavour, unworthy of our prolonged attention? Boing Boing
  • He catalogs Jimmy Carter's Sisyphean struggle to make energy independence a central issue during his presidency. The effort, Mr.
  • In the Daily Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard warned that the EU is forcing a "final catharsis" on Greece:The country appears to be in a self-feeding downward spiral that is playing havoc with budget targets, leaving Greece with a Sisyphean task of ever deeper cuts. Eurozone crisis live: Greek president attacks Germany as bailout deadline moves to Monday
  • After many years of this Sisyphean activity, I was accostedlast month (in my post-Christmas clear out mode) in the Princess Alice Hospice shop in Kingston, when dropping off a bag of (what I thought to be) a rather saleable suit, some books, a pair of shoes and some outgrown children's cardigans. Princess Alice Hospice
  • Should you defeat the king, but fail to dispossess the other barons, maintaining power will become a miserable, Sisyphean undertaking. Reading Machiavelli's 'The Prince'
  • Substituting Herculean for Sisyphean will result in the correct Grecian adjective. Matthew Yglesias » Centrally Planned Suburbia
  • Addressing this problem is no easy matter, not because of its global dimensions and its Sisyphean predilections, but because there is no catch-all solution.
  • As if a mere human could compete with clogged freeways and Sisyphean paper pushing (or its more up-to-date equivalent, paperless pushing) and burnt-coffee-laced afternoons counting the acoustic tiles in stale conference rooms, and the hours spent arguing over the wording of a memo that within minutes after its dissemination will be dragged into the now-two-dimensional circular file. I Choose My Choice!
  • I slog tonight so that the next day's slog will seem marginally less Sisyphean - and so the Teachout Museum, also known as my living room, won't look unpleasingly messy when I stroll through it in the morning on the way to the shower.
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