3 November 2015

Sisyphean

[sis-uh-fee-uh n]

adjective

1. of or relating to Sisyphus.
2. endless and unavailing, as labor or a task.

Origin of Sisyphean

Greek
1625-1635; < Greek Sīsýphe (ios) ( Sī́syph (os) Sisyphus + -eios adj. suffix) + -an

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Examples from the Web for Sisyphean

Contemporary Examples

Graduating into the Great Recession only added to the sense of Sisyphean striving.
Slackers Cheer Health Reform
Samuel P. Jacobs
March 22, 2010

Chrysler nearly escaped its Sisyphean fate, with a hastily arranged “merger of equals” a decade ago, to Daimler-Benz.
The Forgotten Lessons of Lee Iacocca
Paul A. Eisenstein
March 30, 2009

Perhaps even more problematic is that legal enforcement of the policy itself is a Sisyphean task; there is no way it can be done.
The University Of New Orleans’ Cigarette Ban Is Total BS
Chloé Valdary
October 20, 2014

A genuine left wing party of the working class in Australia has not yet developed. Until it does we will remain in the Sisyphean oscillations between neoliberal Labor and pro-austerity Liberal governments.
Is Anthony Albanese too left wing to lead the Labor Party to an election win?
John Passant
En Passant
1 November 2015

Today’s quote

Realise deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make now the primary focus of your life.

– Eckhart Tolle

On this day

3 November 1913 – The United States introduces income tax.

3 November 1921 – birth of Charles Dennis Buchinsky, otherwise known as Charles Bronson, American actor. Died 30 August 2003.

3 November 1957 – Laika becomes the world’s first space-dog when the Soviet Union launches Sputnik II, sending the first ever living animal into space. Laika is the first animal to orbit the earth. She was a stray-dog which was chosen to undergo training with two other dogs, before being selected for the mission. In 2002 it was revealed that she died within hours of take-off from over-heating when one of the motors failed to separate from the payload.