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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cruel king of Corinth condemned forever to roll a huge stone up a hill in Hades only to have it roll down again on nearing the top.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Class. Myth.) A king of Corinth, son of Æolus, famed for his cunning. He was killed by Theseus, and in the lower world was condemned by Pluto to roll to the top of a hill a huge stone, which constantly rolled back again, making his task incessant.
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- proper noun tragic figure in Greek
mythology doomed eternally to roll aboulder up a hill inTartarus , a part ofHades .
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- noun (Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again
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Examples
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I just want to point out that Sisyphus is not a patient with a mental health problem.
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I just want to point out that Sisyphus is not a patient with a mental health problem.
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She wrote her impressions in letters sent from the places she visited (1911 – 1912), published in a book entitled Sisyphus-Arbeit (1911), where she related how she tried desperately to inform Jewish communities of the gravity of the situation.
White Slavery. 2009
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I think Jim Styczinski, a lifelong Twins fan who blogs as "Sisyphus" at The Nihilist in Golf Pants, gave me the answer.
If They Build It, You Will Pay Mark Yost 2010
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I think Jim Styczinski, a lifelong Twins fan who blogs as "Sisyphus" at The Nihilist in Golf Pants, gave me the answer.
If They Build It, You Will Pay Mark Yost 2010
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I think Jim Styczinski, a lifelong Twins fan who blogs as "Sisyphus" at The Nihilist in Golf Pants, gave me the answer.
If They Build It, You Will Pay Mark Yost 2010
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McAdam Freud's "Sisyphus," in which her looser style is reminiscent of the exposed, vulnerable and sometimes angst-ridden figures in the work of father Lucian.
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— Wikipedia entry for 'Sisyphus'I always liked and respected Mats Sundin, even long before I moved to Toronto.
Archive 2008-01-01 James Mirtle 2008
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The filing system (code name Sisyphus) which goes from “Anti Liberal “to “Wimmin” is above You can just make out two Moses baskets which are about to be traded for cots.
Blog Standard Office Newmania 2008
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The pop rock sound returns though for "Sisyphus" and "Nur Rock´n Roll", a couple of fairly nondescript affairs.
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jesse74 commented on the word Sisyphus
Sisyphus was famed as the craftiest of men. When Death came to fetch him, Sisyphus put him into fetters, so that no one died till Ares came and freed Death, and delivered Sisyphus into his custody. But Sisyphus was not yet at the end of his resources. For before he died he told his wife that when he was gone she was not to offer the usual sacrifice to the dead. So in the under world he complained that his wife was neglecting her duty, and he persuaded Hades to allow him to go back to the upper world and expostulate with her. But when he got back to Corinth he positively refused to return, until forcibly carried off by Hermes. 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
February 21, 2012