How To Use Sisyphus In A Sentence
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You feel like Sisyphus - condemned to roll that same damn rock up the same damn hill for all eternity, only to watch it roll back down inches from the top.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight.
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The next stage, she says, is an attitude of helplessness about work, the full-blown Sisyphus complex.
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Sugar presses forward, rolling this talking Sisyphus stone farther up the slope, flashing William a smile of reassurance.
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Long before he died, he wrote an essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, which in a normal mood I usually dismiss as overwrought claptrap.
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What happens can be likened to Sisyphus´ endlessly rolling his stone up the slope, but in this case finding that the slope beyond the crest is also an uphill one.
Press Release: The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
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The celebrated philosophical essays ( "The Myth of Sisyphus," The Rebel) are the work of an extraordinarily talented and literate epigone.
There's Something Wrong with Sven
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And the tumblebug toils and pants and sweats and worries, pushing its burden up hill forever, like Sisyphus, and pretty soon some one comes along and thinks how vulgar and ugly it is, and steps on it and squashes it.
Maxims and Light Verse
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For Socrates, the appetitive hedonist is a blissfully ignorant Sisyphus forever doomed to the cruel pleasure of scratching a persistent itch.
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Tityos and Sisyphus and Cerberus and the Furies to facts of the human soul: -- sed metus in vita poenarum pro male factis est insignibus insignis, scelerisque luella, carcer et horribilis de saxo iactu 'deorsum, verbera carnifices robur pix lammina tædæ; quæ tamen etsi absunt, at mens sibi conscia facti præmetuens adhibet stimulos terretque flagellis nec videt interea qui terminus esse malorum possit nec quæ sit poenarum denique finis atque eadem metuit magis hæc ne in morte gravescant.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series
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A Sisyphus, he'd stuck it out after Independence, learning the art of fighting first.
WHITE LIES
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In earlier incarnations of Sisyphus whose images can be found in the link below, especially in her medallic work, there is a higher degree of relief and, therefore, more of a boundary between man and what obsesses him.
Penelope Andrew: The Freud(ian)s: Inspired by Sigmund's Passion for Antiquities, Jane Debuts Her Own Paradigms of the Unconscious
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If a round of golf is a good walk spoiled, then lugging around a golfer's bag of clubs and assorted paraphernalia makes Sisyphus's task look like an easy-peasy ramble over the hills.
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Firedoglake » Let’s Talk, Senator.
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When I reached the bottom I huffed just long enough to turn around again and start back up, an Ivy League Sisyphus.
LEGAL TENDER
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With only $24 million at her disposal, less than 2% of the UN's budget, she is operating on a shoestring and facing problems that would have daunted Sisyphus.
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McAdam Freud's latest incantation of Sisyphus, more amorphous than its medallic counterpart, which makes palpable the conceptual roots of Sigmund Freud's repetition compulsion.
Penelope Andrew: The Freud(ian)s: Inspired by Sigmund's Passion for Antiquities, Jane Debuts Her Own Paradigms of the Unconscious
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I am there, once again raking pine needles, just moving them from one place to another, over and over again, like Sisyphus rolling his bloody rock.
The Persistence of Pine: A Sensory Flashback and a Sacred Place
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Sisyphus was condemned to roll a rock uphill all day, every day.
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Sisyphus, as the story goes, was a King who widely extended the commerce, and largely increased the wealth, of Corinth, but by avaricious and fraudful ways; for the sin whereof he was sentenced after death to the unresting labour of rolling up a hill in Tartarus, a huge unhewn block of stone, which so soon as he gets it to the hill top, for all his efforts, rolls down again.
Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers
