| Sugar presses forward, rolling this talking Sisyphus stone farther up the slope, flashing William a smile of reassurance. |
| The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. |
| Long before he died, he wrote an essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, which in a normal mood I usually dismiss as overwrought claptrap. |
| The next stage, she says, is an attitude of helplessness about work, the full-blown Sisyphus complex. |
| More than enough evidence, perhaps, that attacking drug supply is a job for Sisyphus. |
| For Socrates, the appetitive hedonist is a blissfully ignorant Sisyphus forever doomed to the cruel pleasure of scratching a persistent itch. |
