On the Effort Meter, This Manuscript Is Reading 'Sisyphean'. From Wordnik.com. [On the Effort Meter, This Manuscript Is Reading 'Sisyphean'] Reference
Editorial Anonymous: On the Effort Meter, This Manuscript Is Reading 'Sisyphean'. From Wordnik.com. [On the Effort Meter, This Manuscript Is Reading 'Sisyphean'] Reference
Obama has a Sisyphean task to merely move us forward. From Wordnik.com. [Bush's Legacy is No Gran Torino] Reference
It seems to me the most Sisyphean of household tasks. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
Recognizing the norms of teen behavior can be a Sisyphean task. From Wordnik.com. [What Happens When They Grow Up] Reference
If you ever hear the term" Sisyphean Task," that's the referent. From Wordnik.com. [Me 'n' Sisyphus] Reference
It's a strange, Sisyphean task that Carcaterra has set for himself. From Wordnik.com. [Walking Wounded] Reference
It is a Sisyphean task indeed but indicative of the PTBs desperation. From Wordnik.com. [Maul Scale | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
Is your Sisyphean rock broken promises or future wishing with no action?. From Wordnik.com. [Agapi Stassinopoulos: Breaking the Spell of Sisyphus: How to Let Go of Negative Patterns] Reference
Unfortunately one of Hercules 'tasks was cleaning up the Sisyphean stables. From Wordnik.com. [Rove On Hurricanes In August: "The Republicans Can't Seem To Get A Break"] Reference
Military recruiters are men condemned to a Sisyphean exercise in futility. From Wordnik.com. [James Heffernan: Memo to Universities: Let in Those Army Recruiters -- and Then Educate Them] Reference
Parks does a great job of cleaning up every day, but it's a Sisyphean daily task. From Wordnik.com. [The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Art, Affluence, Acidophilus, and Ascots] Reference
Doomed always to walk but never to arrive: a Sisyphean punishment for his crimes. From Wordnik.com. [The Spectator’s 50 Essential Films: Part Two] Reference
He says it's a Sisyphean task for most people to be able to disrupt those forces. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Keenan: My "Diet" Done Right? The Docs Weigh In] Reference
That Sisyphean task is obviously keeping the ora habitat free of local settlements. From Wordnik.com. [Never Yet Melted] Reference
What looked impossible, Sisyphean and pointless in January suddenly seems possible. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Unleashes Inner Mr(s). Clean] Reference
It's a total Sisyphean task, but like Albert Camus, I must imagine futility with a smile. From Wordnik.com. [labor day epidural] Reference
One evening I found him in his chambers engaged upon his Sisyphean labour of "tidying up.". From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Then you are frustrated and you are mad, and it becomes a Sisyphean task to calm yourself. From Wordnik.com. [Suz Redfearn: My Child, the Chupacabra] Reference
Evaluating the overall security climate in Afghanistan has so far been a Sisyphean effort. From Wordnik.com. [Patrick Barry: 5 Thoughts on the Afghan Elections] Reference
A difficult and futile endeavor may be called a labor of Sisyphus or a Sisyphean task. From Wordnik.com. [Sisyphus] Reference
We three he-men bent at the knees, put our shoulders into it, and made like Sisyphean triplets. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
(Pity the poor windshield wiper, for its Sisyphean labors will never attain the status of myth.). From Wordnik.com. [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]
So objecting to a word also travelling this same trodden path is rather, well, Sisyphean of you. From Wordnik.com. [My sweet honey bee] Reference
Until then, many of those seeking treatment will continue on a Sisyphean quest for a baby of their own. From Wordnik.com. [The Infertility Challenge] Reference
Their Sisyphean struggle is made clear in the National Journal's special report on lobbying, "The L Word.". From Wordnik.com. [James Warren: This Week in Magazines: Rahm Emanuel's Likability, the Truth about Yoga, Torture in America, Runners' Diets, and Affleck's Paparazzi Strategy] Reference
Traveling through the blackened marshes, I got the sense that the task was Sisyphean, but I remain hopeful. From Wordnik.com. [Patricia Clarkson: Returning to the Gulf After BP Destroyed It] Reference
While it's a Sisyphean labor to define willful infringement as opposed to regular infringement, the RIAA told. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Mr. van Kempen endorses that plan, considering it "a thoughtful and practical attempt at a rather Sisyphean task.". From Wordnik.com. [Never Yet Melted] Reference
But with 211 million firearms -- nearly one for every man, woman and child in America -- it's a Sisyphean problem. From Wordnik.com. [Farewell To Arms] Reference
We live in an obnoxiously insistent age, with its relentless blog slog and the Sisyphean ordeal of answering emails. From Wordnik.com. [Tiki Doesn't Have to Be Tacky] Reference
We have been investing in a new network of groups organizing in low income communities of color against Sisyphean odds. From Wordnik.com. [Torie Osborn: Revolution and Spirit......Introduction] Reference
Making himself useful as always, he took upon himself the Sisyphean task of keeping all those Modernist surfaces sparkling. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Of course, when it comes to the Sisyphean task of filling a page and a half of gossip every day, there are certain verities. From Wordnik.com. [The Gossip Behind the Gossip] Reference
The drop-out rate for the 2,500 strong elite ANCOP is an astronomical 65%, making any training efforts a Sisyphean undertaking. From Wordnik.com. [Policing Afghanistan: How Afghan Police Training Became a Train Wreck] Reference
School reform can sometimes seem like a Sisyphean task, but D. C.'s breakout on teacher tenure shows that the status quo can be broken. From Wordnik.com. [Teacher Tenure Breakout] Reference
This is an extremely effective political strategy, for it locates a nebulous and Sisyphean effort in a single, easily trackable number. From Wordnik.com. [Should Rhee stay or go?] Reference
To say anything in "4:48 Psychosis" becomes a Sisyphean venture - defiant and pathetic - in the eclipsing shadow of this writer's anguish. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-10-01] Reference
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