sisyphus

IPA: sˈɪsˈaɪfʌs

Root Word: Sisyphus

noun

  • (Greek mythology) Son of Aeolus and Enarete, and king of Ephyra, as tragic figure doomed eternally to roll a boulder up a hill in Tartarus, a part of Hades.
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Examples of "sisyphus" in Sentences

  • Like Sisyphus with the stone up the hill.
  • May 17, 2010 at 1:14 am sisyphus kitteh hassa babies.
  • At the end of the book he gets to the Myth of Sisyphus.
  • Fighting the bias might be something of a Sisyphus task..
  • The words are spoken by Sisyphus, a character in the play.
  • He compares the myth of Sisyphus to the life of a normal person.
  • Sisyphus slyly asked Thanatos to demonstrate how the chains worked.
  • Sisyphus slyly asked Thanatos to try the chains to show how they worked.
  • A big part of the punishment is that Sisyphus couldn't complete the task.
  • Sisyphus slyly asked 'Thanatos' to try the chains to show how they worked.
  • I found the wiki incredibly useful, for many of the reasons given by sisyphus.
  • From Sisyphus was a Greek mythological figure who was doomed to endlessly roll a boulder up a hill in Hades.
  • February 5th, 2006 at 5: 24 pm sisyphus: I think the answers to your questions are “no” and “yes” respectively.
  • Steve Benen progressive alaska night light fired up missouri multi medium whiskey fire correntewire pharyngula sisyphus shrugged dan froomkin daily howler media matters brad blog norwegianity sadly, no!
  • But when we leave Bush will be out of office and if Obama makes the call and the chaos ensues who will get the blame? otherwise we have perpetual war - stability in iraq - i.e., iraq the way we want it to be - is impossible without our war machine. — sisyphus
  • February 8th, 2006 at 11: 39 pm sisyphus: - in addition to the possibility that the spacetime has a non-trivial metric, mentioned by Sean, another common way of changing things quite drastically is to have other dynamical fields switched on in some directions, but not others.
  • Steve Benen talk left sisyphus shrugged open left stark reports balkinization glenn greenwald media matters talking points memo darkblack memeorandum tom maguire angry black bitch daily howler mydd taylor marsh psotd norwegianity arkansas blog enter the jabberwock intoxination tom dispatch
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  • Gooznews five thirty eight juan cole open left dohiyi mir baseline scenario echidne of the snakes americablog glenn greenwald anonymous liberal acs blog fallen monk correntewire the political carnival vinyl mine mark kleiman jay rosen bonnie erbe alternate brain arkansas blog sisyphus shrugged progressive alaska laura rozen tom maguire enter the jabberwock
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