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Despite this sisyphean endeavor to work my way through The List, imagine my delight and astonishment when I am introduced to a completely new dessert. sprinkle gelatin over cream and water— Tartelette
And yet this weary detail of a very long and sisyphean effort to shake off this mortal coil and to enter into rest is worthy of the missionary’s attention, as it represents, perhaps, the most elaborate system of eschatology outside of the New Testament.— India's Problem, Krishna or Christ
Explaining to someone in that situation that they're wrong is a sisyphean task, because to them you are an extremist religious zealot and they are a high-minded moderate.— Deltoid
Etymology: Latin sisypheius, sisyphi us sisyphean (from Greek sisypheios, sisyphios, from— Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition

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