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I think I might be about to be the first person to use the word "sisyphean" on
Niles's Blog 2009
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I would substitute sisyphean for herculean for the correct Grecian adjective.
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Yet in your sisyphean struggle to link Jon Stewart and Rush Limbaugh as peers, you have to completely ignore the wide gulf between the two and what they do.
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With healthcare, jobs, economy, and two wars looming large and staring the country down, it will be sisyphean task for anybody to win over the public.
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But trying to make sense of this show is a sisyphean task, like trying to tie a knot in a cherry stem with your tongue after six Midori Sours, so I'll let it be.
Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 1: The Couple Who Branded Their Baby Una LaMarche 2011
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I would substitute sisyphean for herculean for the correct Grecian adjective.
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But trying to make sense of this show is a sisyphean task, like trying to tie a knot in a cherry stem with your tongue after six Midori Sours, so I'll let it be.
Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 1: The Couple Who Branded Their Baby Una LaMarche 2011
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I would substitute sisyphean for herculean for the correct Grecian adjective. anon says:
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But trying to make sense of this show is a sisyphean task, like trying to tie a knot in a cherry stem with your tongue after six Midori Sours, so I'll let it be.
Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 1: The Couple Who Branded Their Baby Una LaMarche 2011
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It's because of theimpossibilityof it, the sisyphean feat of putting pen to paper.
Pi in the Sky 2010
whichbe commented on the word sisyphean
Endless, unavailing, and fruitless labor.
May 20, 2008