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I think I might be about to be the first person to use the word "sisyphean" on
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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
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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
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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
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It's because of theimpossibilityof it, the sisyphean feat of putting pen to paper.
whichbe commented on the word sisyphean
Endless, unavailing, and fruitless labor.
May 20, 2008