| For some it's an afternoon's entertainment, falling off their board and hauling themselves up again with a kind of Sisyphean hopelessness. |
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| It's a Sisyphean task making today's complex software, with millions of lines of code, totally bug free. |
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| It was a Sisyphean task of epic proportions that defied a normal life expectancy. |
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| The first exercise machine, in fact, was designed as a particularly tedious form of Sisyphean punishment. |
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| Happy lunchtime. I managed to book holidays, after what looked at first like a Sisyphean struggle. |
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| For years, the music and film industries have fought a Sisyphean battle against piracy. |
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| He's urging anyone who's listening to continue on toward their desires, no matter how Sisyphean the task may prove to be. |
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| Yes, it's a difficult task, maybe even a Sisyphean one, but it's that challenge that ennobles what journalists do. |
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| Of course, trying to correct an animal rights activist with erroneous information is a Sisyphean task. |
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| Graduating into the Great Recession only added to the sense of Sisyphean striving. |
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| Addressing this problem is no easy matter, not because of its global dimensions and its Sisyphean predilections, but because there is no catch-all solution. |
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| In view of this Sisyphean task, many of those involved are now displaying the first signs of weariness. |
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| The processes of building modern civil societies are exhausting, Sisyphean, and frustrating. |
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| Even if it means that it will be a Sisyphean task, the fathers of the International Coalition of Cities against Racism refuse to bend backwards. |
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| Not only do they lose the game but they are sentenced to a Sisyphean task. |
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| The job of encouraging better care of livestock is Sisyphean. |
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| With this dossier, she has shown that even Sisyphean tasks can be completed successfully. |
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| Luckily the dunny man was a model of probity. Never putting a foot wrong, he carried out his Sisyphean task in loyal silence. |
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| And who better than DJ Taylor to undertake the Sisyphean labour of anatomising such a society in all its quiddities, vanities, rivalries and ambitions? |
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| Previously, a plaster cast was made of the rear left paw of each individual set of pugmarks — a task that, from the deck of the Tanaya, at least, seemed of almost Sisyphean impossibility. |
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| America uses it too, but tracking the guns used in crimes there would be a Sisyphean task: few guns are used repeatedly there because it is so easy to buy new ones. |
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| Yet the task of quashing rumours is a Sisyphean one. |
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| Perhaps he has learned, as Mr Blair did, that public-service reform is a Sisyphean rock: pressure has to be constantly applied to stop it slipping back. |
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| It would be a Sisyphean task to list the manifold ways in which religiosity is presumed through our democracy, institutions and culture, and it is worth considering why. |
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| The purpose of the policy was, firstly, to protect White jobs, but also to attempt the Sisyphean task of reversing the relentless influx of rural Black people to the industrial cities. |
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| Although all researchers face the Sisyphean challenge, researchers involved with the South face an especially difficult challenge to create, consolidate and sustain capacity for science and technology research capabilities. |
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| The pod's sensory apparatus is linked up to a Macbook Pro in the back, which over three years will create 3D maps of its Sisyphean journey along the pavement between Milton Keynes railway station and the shopping centre. |
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| Trolling for notes every few months can be a Sisyphean task. |
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