How To Use Sisyphean In A Sentence
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He catalogs Jimmy Carter's Sisyphean struggle to make energy independence a central issue during his presidency.
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Is ufology a sisyphean endeavour, unworthy of our prolonged attention?
Boing Boing
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He catalogs Jimmy Carter's Sisyphean struggle to make energy independence a central issue during his presidency. The effort, Mr.
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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
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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
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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'
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Substituting Herculean for Sisyphean will result in the correct Grecian adjective.
Matthew Yglesias » Centrally Planned Suburbia
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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.
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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!
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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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Despite happiness ? apparently Sisyphean 14 nature, there may be ways to increase satisfaction over the long term.
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Editorial Anonymous: On the Effort Meter, This Manuscript Is Reading 'Sisyphean'
On the Effort Meter, This Manuscript Is Reading 'Sisyphean'
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No, it would be a Sisyphean task only if the bricks reassembled themselves into the shape of a garage after they were taken down ….
Matthew Yglesias » Centrally Planned Suburbia
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On the Effort Meter, This Manuscript Is Reading 'Sisyphean'
Archive 2010-02-01
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`You have no idea - "she stood up - `what Sisyphean labour it was, tracking down this canvas.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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I write a bloomin 'videogame blog that aims to elevate the medium above the general level of “Hey, fuck you, my mum is a classy lady” Xbox live discourse which, I occasionally suspect, may be a noble yet Sisyphean effort.
Archive 2008-12-01
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Today, the word Sisyphean is used to describe a labor without goal, purpose, or reward.
Babes with a Beatitude
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Schulz made it funny with characters who faced a Sisyphean suburban world with resilience and curiosity.
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It is a Sisyphean mission, and a dangerous one: the system encourages security officers to abduct and punish the petitioners.