To me, the bee hunt seemed like a Sisyphean task.
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Indeed, its likely failure can give it a Sisyphean depth.
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So I bought some and performed the Sisyphean ritual myself.
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But keeping those supply lines open is a Sisyphean task.
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Its afterlife, painted as an opportunity, is actually a Sisyphean hell.
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It sounds Sisyphean, but the alternative would be even more painful.
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In a Sisyphean twist, the leaked memo was about preventing leaks.
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It is a Sisyphean rock for anyone who watches election coverage.
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Trying to make friends at uni was the ultimate Sisyphean task.
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Parsing President-elect Trump's tweets seems to be a sisyphean task.
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The task is Sisyphean, and the solutions are broad but lacking.
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But the journey toward an actual ownership of true manhood is Sisyphean.
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Entire magazines, podcasts and TV shows exist to service Brexit's Sisyphean bureaucracy.
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Being in a band is a Sisyphean task with disappointment built in.
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But at the scale required in a professional kitchen, they felt Sisyphean.
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For city leaders past and present, rats have presented a Sisyphean challenge.
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That may be a Sisyphean task for Huffman and the Reddit leadership.
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Carter would need 93 times that many people to achieve Wendy's sisyphean task.
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Here, the Sisyphean quality of the work is both fully articulated and exercised.
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He believes we can reverse this trend—without undertaking Sisyphean gun control efforts.
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"Doctrinal reform is arduous, often-Sisyphean work," Willett observed in last month's concurrence.
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But the task is Sisyphean, he acknowledged over the course of three interviews.
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The task is Sisyphean as each day delivers literal waves of new trash.
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There are days when Baum wonders if this Sisyphean task will ever end.
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"Recovery Boys" depicts a tough battle, but one that is not necessarily Sisyphean.
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The Palauan officers I shadowed were well aware that theirs is a Sisyphean task.
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You don't need to take on the Sisyphean task of scrubbing your showerhead clean.
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Some have left the Sisyphean cycle, yes, but often not because they chose to.
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His oeuvre presents an affecting blend of Sisyphean struggle, absurdist humor, and humanist concern.
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These days, though, making any list of must-see TV is a downright Sisyphean.
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Policing the entire sports world for doping is a Sisyphean task, to be sure.
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But the task is Sisyphean, he acknowledged over the course of three interviews recently.
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It can feel Sisyphean, pushing a huge legal rock up a sizable legal hill.
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In many states, compliance with the registry can prove to be a Sisyphean task.
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Marissa Mayer took on a Sisyphean task when she became Yahoo chief executive in 2012.
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However, pushing any alternative to such a dominant platform as Android remains a Sisyphean challenge.
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The politicized, zero-sum focus of insurance reform is a Sisyphean approach to healthcare reform.
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But in any Sisyphean pursuit, there comes a tipping point where ambition turns into desperation.
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The Sisyphean task of keeping an eye on it all falls to the Election Commission.
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That's why the diet industry in this country is a Sisyphean boondoggle worth $66 billion.
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Then, in true Sisyphean fashion, the whole process, with inevitable recriminations, must be repeated periodically.
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Some feature Sisyphean rocks that function as principal graphic elements in his green-hued compositions.
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Take buying kit, a near Sisyphean task given that women's football clothing doesn't really exist.
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Making point solutions that don't integrate into a broader platform is a Sisyphean task for edtech.
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It's solitary work, done overnight, he said, and it can sometimes feel like a Sisyphean task.
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Whether that is the best outcome for the Yankees, who have had Sisyphean difficulty climbing above .
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The word "Sisyphean" is misleading, since we never pushed our rock anywhere close to the top.
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There is the sense, finally, that those narcoleptic, shapeless, Sisyphean games are over for the season.
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But now that he has hitched his wagon to that Sisyphean mission, he finds himself cornered.
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If I press its single button, it dies, while another press resumes the slow, Sisyphean tidying.
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In other words, warding off illegal grows on public land may seem like a Sisyphean task.
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There's something very sisyphean about this type of play where the pandas climb just to fall again.
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In one, platform managers are playing a Sisyphean delete-and-block game against persistent and inventive opponents.
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He highlights the Sisyphean nature of our quests for immaculate knowledge, ridiculing the promise of endless progress.
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It's Sisyphean — we're all pushing that boulder up the hill, only to see it roll back down.
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But teaching creativity in China can feel like a Sisyphean struggle, because power trumps truth in China.
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Inspired teachers occasionally can succeed in overcoming youthful resistance, but they are engaged in a Sisyphean struggle.
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Gradually, the talk comfortably turned to the Sisyphean challenges of hair maintenance in the Austin summer humidity.
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Yet, the Trump foreign policy team must roll, Sisyphean-like, the stone up the hill another time.
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But Clark is recast in this miniseries as a Sisyphean hero, crushed by larger and larger boulders.
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Trying to walk her through an easy way to email an image is a Sisyphean exercise in misery.
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The diversity of the Android ecosystem makes any push for standardizing enhanced native messaging features a Sisyphean struggle.
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Prosecuting a domestic violence case in the United States can often feel Sisyphean for a number of reasons.
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A sense of glee is apparent precisely because these mildly Sisyphean routines are all very fun to watch.
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Combine that with low productivity growth, and hitting Mr. Trump's target begins to look like a Sisyphean challenge.
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How to find out what the internet knows about you, at this point, is an almost sisyphean task.
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Other works perform a playful, self-destructive repetition that has a courageous (if daft) Sisyphean feeling about it.
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And so claiming compliance without trust, as Facebook now finds itself trying to, really is the archetypal Sisyphean struggle.
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However, without Hercules, the economy will face a Sisyphean struggle and may never get that boulder up the hill.
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The title "Narcisyphus" seems to be gently about those people — narcissists involved in the Sisyphean act of making art.
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Instagram is for carefully curating your #bestlife through artfully filtered photographs in a Sisyphean race to outrun cybernetic depression.
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Bringing business-centered solutions to the Sisyphean task of reforming government is absolutely necessary, but historically destined for failure.
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People in the loop of this policing circle know it is an absurd and Sisyphean use of law enforcement.
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It's endless, in an almost Sisyphean way, but just like Sisyphus I can't help but start from the bottom.
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Some contrarian media critics said good riddance, calling the briefing a Sisyphean exercise of obligatory questions and maddening nonanswers.
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He faces the Sisyphean task of scraping together money and evading law enforcement officers looking to deport undocumented laborers.
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It seems like that's — I'm going to pronounce this word incorrectly — sis ... pushing a rock up the hill. Sisyphean.
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Trump's tweets, abrupt changes of mind and penchant for creating staff turmoil combine to make this a Sisyphean endeavor.
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"Because colours exist as much in the cultural realm as they do physically," she writes, "such attempts are somewhat Sisyphean".
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Nothing. Büchler describes his practice as "making nothing happen," and the artist is preoccupied with a Sisyphean idea of work.
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So on this, the day in which our sisyphean ordeal is upgraded to a bigger boulder, take time for yourself.
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One explanation for the Sisyphean back-and-forth might be just the fiercely anti-Disney, sceptical bent to Pratchett's writing.
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Attempting to fish out this drifting morass of trash using conventional methods—vessels, more nets—would be a Sisyphean task.
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Managing the Sisyphean task of capitalist survival even as each monetizable hour heralds your physical body's ultimate and humiliating demise.
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Do I attempt to engage in the seemingly Sisyphean task of learning to enjoy my own reality as it is?
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Nadal had won 50 straight sets on clay, and beating him on his favorite surface looked like a Sisyphean task.
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The Sisyphean trash sorting is a test of X's plan to make robots useful by having them learn from experience.
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Was the unknown man trying to break the rat from the shackles of his seemingly Sisyphean race up the wrong escalator?
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The Sisyphean poignancy to this book gives it a heft that "Bernadette" lacked, even if it's also rougher around the edges.
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As for the rest of us, we are under no illusions that our work is anything more than a Sisyphean task.
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On Thursday, the latest tactic in the Sisyphean effort was unveiled, with great fanfare, by Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president.
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Whereas their work might have seemed Sisyphean or irrelevant in the past, a successful vaccine seems closer at hand than ever.
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It is both the perfect candidate for diagraming what happens next and a Sisyphean task of trying to outline every possibility.
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Tasked with Sisyphean chores and supplied with counterproductive tools, it is not surprising that the DEA and ICE share some dysfunctions.
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The company has also struggled to strike deals with U.S. carriers, making distribution something of a Sisyphean task here in the States.
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A single person collecting them in one place is a Sisyphean task, but a collective is far more suited to the challenge.
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The desire for uniqueness and convenience when it comes to planning a wedding is understandable, even if it is a little Sisyphean.
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Additionally, we learned how difficult it is to find and retain talent in the U.S.; it can feel like a Sisyphean task.
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All are involved in the Sisyphean task of knocking down the financial scams, inflammatory political statements, and quack science that deluge users.
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I like to think of him as a Sisyphean figure, trying to solve an inborn problem by simply pushing the boulder harder.
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Songs tackle everything from swallowed shame ("Acetone") to the price of dying ("Big Funny") to the Sisyphean nature of life under capitalism ("$$$").
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The world is riddled with such exasperating errors, and Ms. Streisand sees herself as burdened with the Sisyphean task of uprooting them.
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They could try to turn around their lackluster properties, like Comedy Central, on their own, but that would be a Sisyphean task.
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While a laudable aspiration, divergent member state preferences and the procedural obstacles to amending the UN Charter make it a Sisyphean task.
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It doesn't aestheticize failure the way [Martin] Kippenberger's acolytes do, nor does it approach art as Sisyphean, the way Kate Gilmore might.
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This time around, a handful of progressive challengers are launching similarly Sisyphean races against Pelosi in a primary slated for next week.
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Twitter's ongoing, and possibly Sisyphean, effort of policing and removing nefarious content disseminated on its platform is taking another step forward today.
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Western firms that do business with Saudi Arabia may face a Sisyphean challenge when trying to protect their reputations after every new outrage.
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It's a Sisyphean undertaking, demystifying a disease that has been stained with meaning and myth (for the records, limbs do not "fall off").
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The content production machine never tires, and fresh battles beckoned me daily, leaving Maniac a senseless casualty in my endless, Sisyphean entertainment war.
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Standing on a street corner as another city employee power-washed the sidewalk, Mr. Montoya described a Sisyphean cycle of cleanup and filth.
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Picking up beach trash is a Sisyphean task, and it does nothing to put a dent in the microplastics that litter our beaches.
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The Sisyphean task of the conservation team is to ensure Balenciaga's clothing — past, present and future — survives, even as time conspires against it.
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It is a horrific Sisyphean existence to eat leaves and seeds every day only to… eat more leaves and more seeds for more days.
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The song's notable in that it addresses his creative shortcomings not as a series of one-off misfires, but as a constant, Sisyphean slog.
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When Dan, deep in his Sisyphean task, finds the weight of his conscience unendurable, he takes appropriate action and winds up needing a lawyer.
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Additionally, gallery fatigue — having to commute from gallery to gallery across town — makes attending more than two openings in an evening a Sisyphean task.
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Some have pointed out that with the air pollution problem unsolved, it's a Sisyphean task for cleaners to prevent dust from collecting on streets.
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Leave your expectations at the door, the mural silently proclaims, the reality constructed here is entirely subjective, a winding Sisyphean maze of convoluted ideas.
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Particularly if you're mad about the rent being too damn high, or your Sisyphean mountain of student debt, or just income inequality in general.
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Or LeBron James, whose Sisyphean boulder of expectations suddenly, matter-of-factly crested a seemingly insurmountable summit and bounced lightly down the other side?
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But, by the time Offred got her second chance to escape, in Episode 11, the plot was devolving into an exercise in Sisyphean futility.
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And James took time out from preparing for the Sisyphean task of trying to beat the Warriors to aim a jab at the president.
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The show follows five ignorant, arrogant bar owners in South Philadelphia in their Sisyphean quests for wealth, fame, sex, bragging rights and mere literacy.
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Then came a series of blown deadlines as the project hit technical snags and struggled with a Sisyphean list of government-mandated safety upgrades.
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I even considered unfriending certain especially app-promiscuous friends, but, realizing this task was Sisyphean, I resigned myself to unwanted and unapproved data leaks.
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Spieth later conquered his own Sisyphean task, but meanwhile, Spieth's rival Phil Mickelson was a tiny whisper away from scoring a hole-in-one.
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But for the uninsured—who are more likely to be people of color—navigating these barriers to get PrEP can be an expensive Sisyphean task.
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There's a Sisyphean element to the work: Come spring, all the frozen buildings will melt, and the festival grounds will be empty until next winter.
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Instead of walking in those Sisyphean steps, we can talk with our kids about our concerns, our rules and the risks associated with social media.
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Early next week, France's energetic President Emmanuel Macron will put his shoulder to the Sisyphean challenge of shifting the EU towards the path he prefers.
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The effort required to circumvent China's data trove, advances in biometric identifiers, and facial recognition at border crossings and on street corners seems increasingly Sisyphean.
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Being a movie star/entertainment mogul/IRL Santa Claus/glamorous gardening cover model sounds a lot better than the Sisyphean burdens of White House life.
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Historians don't know why the campaign for gender equality has been such a Sisyphean task in America but sometimes the stone rolls backwards particularly fast.
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On Wednesday, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni announced a potentially important breakthrough in Italy's seemingly Sisyphean task of stopping migrants from setting sail for Sicily.
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The sky is crisp and ablaze in the wake of an El Niño downpour, and we're transfixed watching them tackle the rising tide with Sisyphean gusto.
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Whilst they didn't quite manage it, they did enough to ensure any attempts at a full blown renaissance would face an uphill battle of Sisyphean proportions.
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While the works' spatial relationships are well articulated — the dangling chains and bells have the Sisyphean aura of gym equipment — their conceptual relationships are less developed.
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I cried because it feels like women have been doing this Sisyphean labor forever, the work of endlessly healing ourselves from violence that just keeps coming.
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But as officials and advocates celebrated their victory, they repeatedly cited Ms. Markey's zeal in waging a political fight that was bruising and once seemingly Sisyphean.
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Then, last week, Huawei laid off five American employees, including William B. Plummer, the executive who was the face of its Sisyphean efforts to win over Washington.
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Meanwhile, Pence will try to make more progress on his Sisyphean task of normalizing Trump — which, given the GOP nominee's bizarre behavior of late, may be difficult.
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Any anti-harassment strategy that focuses on deletion and removal is doomed to spin in circles, damned to the Sisyphean task of stamping out infinitely replicable information.
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It seems a Sisyphean task, and it's been going on long enough to invite the question of why so many companies bother making Android phones at all.
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If you're not a morning person, dragging yourself out of bed, down the stairs, and out the door can seem a Sisyphean task — it never gets easier.
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Nonfiction As time marches on, it doesn't seem impossible that Orson Welles's legend as the screen's ultimate Sisyphean showman will outlast any particular familiarity with his movies.
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But the last year has shown the Sisyphean nature of this work: eight years of labor, against so many obstacles, can all but vanish in a moment.
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Movement of any kind is a fraught proposition for Clov, and in a highly disciplined physical performance, Radcliffe turns every act of locomotion into a Sisyphean dance.
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A year later, at the Copa América in Chile, Argentina collapsed in a penalty shootout against the host nation, extending its Sisyphean frustration at least one more year.
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It's difficult enough bringing routines from home onto the road, but building and creating new ones while uprooting my life and resetting it every week can feel Sisyphean.
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It is also a Sisyphean task to inspect every parcel going in and out of the city, home to one of the world's most voluminous ports and airports.
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The illustrative gouaches and drawings for which she is known feature women in states of work or activity, often burdened by heavy parcels, surreal domestic situations, or Sisyphean tasks.
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And for Hollywood, whose entire history is shamefully riddled with warped power structures and the abuses that came out of them, to reckon is a Sisyphean — and necessary — task.
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And she hopes that by connecting these dots, people will rise up and start holding members of Congress accountable, even though that might be something of a Sisyphean task.
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Trying to work out how many of the 51 wells in the area are burning is like trying to peg down figures for anything in Iraq, a Sisyphean labor.
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They inhabited a quirky world of running gags like the beleaguered Charlie Brown's Sisyphean quest to kick a football, Lucy's testy psychiatric help and a blanket-toting child philosopher.
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Such a Sisyphean solution is unlikely to beat pumped storage in places where that is possible, but in parched landscapes like Nevada's it has every chance of doing so.
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It's still often inevitable, but in a way that speak less to the Sisyphean trials of a roguelike and more to the slow tilling of soil that is mortality.
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It is a lyrical meditation on being forced to move to another location after the party's over, on the Sisyphean task of trying to replicate the magic of young passion.
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Placing the viewer in the middle of the action as they are constantly returned to Turkish shores by the authorities, We Wait traced the Sisyphean nature of the migrant experience.
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Going into freshman year of high school, I also realized my grades would start counting toward my GPA for college admissions, and that studying while starving was a Sisyphean task.
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ARM has carved out its niche by continuously being ahead of the competition, nullifying Intel's Sisyphean efforts to break through into mobile, and developing a wide network of satisfied licensees.
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For an entire year, he dressed in a worker's uniform and punched a clock in his studio every hour on the hour for his Sisyphean "Time Clock Piece" (1980-81).
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But the difference in the Sisyphean struggle is that this time we could see it was not a one-off story -- and it knew no partisan, racial or ethnic lines.
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And so Facebook's content moderation team has been given a Sisyphean task: Fix the mess Facebook's worldview and business model has created, without changing the worldview or business model itself.
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For the most part, thinking about the future in 2017 sucks—a Sisyphean slog against existential dread smacking you back down with the ping of each news alert on your phone.
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But our Sisyphean pursuit of the good life has higher stakes, and its amalgam of fantasy and futility is something that we process as experience before we rationalize it in thought.
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Artists are also bogged down in uncertainty, faced with the Sisyphean task of figuring out which of the 50-plus schemata protects their works, in what contexts and for how long.
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At that rate, dabbing becomes not so much a dance move as an expression of the human will crashing ceaselessly against the unyielding forces of time, a Sisyphean act of fortitude.
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This, more than anything, exemplifies the vicious circle that Drake plods around, Sisyphean, eternally: he seeks love, but rarely finds it, so instead he just pretends at it to get attention.
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A simple way to eliminate this Sisyphean task—all the steaks, chocolate donuts, bacon breakfasts, and even my favorite, scotch—is to get rid of human reliance on food and drink entirely.
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Still, given biology's predator/prey nature, how biochemistry and emotions drive us psychologically and how, as a civilization, we learned to distrust the "other" and authority, even this is a Sisyphean challenge.
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He considered the Sisyphean task ahead for the man mowing so large a field, and then noticed his shirt — a riff on the American flag, which prompted him to make some pictures.
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The Lovers is about people who have set for themselves a kind of perpetual Sisyphean tragedy of romance, always doomed to get crushed by the rock they've just rolled up the mountain.
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Which means fact checkers, and indeed journalists, are faced with the Sisyphean task of unpicking all the BS that Internet platforms are liberally fencing and accelerating (and monetizing as they do so).
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Sea levels in this part of the western Pacific are rising by 12mm a year—four times the global average—and countering them with sandbags, concrete and metal is a Sisyphean task.
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Samurai Jack returned this year after over a decade of fans praying for a movie—or any kind of conclusion to our near-invincible hero's Sisyphean fight against the dark lord Aku.
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But his body is almost half a century older, his torso thicker, his hips and shoulders far less flexible, the grating amplified scuff of his feet on the floor decidedly more Sisyphean.
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I've been paging through thousands of letters, and while I'm pleased to say they're running majority positive, I'm chagrined to say that responding to each is proving to be a Sisyphean task.
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Ranking the gags and meta-jokes in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a Sisyphean task, but there is one undeniably good goof for Christmas: the holiday record teased in the film.
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" The Establishment, an independent blog focused on gender and race, stopped publishing in April with a farewell post bemoaning the "Sisyphean" difficulty of making money with a site focused on "intersectional feminist media.
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But from the inside, and for women especially, the house often seems to own you: It dwarfs you, envelops you, conscripts you to a Sisyphean cycle of mortgage payments and repairs and housekeeping.
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They have lost the Tees-Wear derby, they'll probably lose the next eight matches on the trot, and then David Moyes will begin the Sisyphean task of saving the club from relegation once more.
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As it turns out, all you need to feel sympathy for a wood-chopping mechanism's Sisyphean task is to give it a face, which Marczewski does in his new minimalist short film, Vicious Cycle.
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In 2018, the video game website Giant Bomb embarked on one of the most Sisyphean stunts imaginable, as they resolved to play through the Garfield games that had the misfortune of making it to market.
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It's not clear whether their job was given to other officials or whether the White House has given up on the Sisyphean task of keeping Trump in conformity with his lawful duty on records preservation.
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When Erlich, Richard and the gang were trying to get the company off the ground, their fortunes were tethered together, so their endless setbacks had all of them pushing that Sisyphean boulder up the hill.
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Higginbotham describes an excruciating aftermath, as Pripyat's residents were coaxed into a "temporary" evacuation and middle-aged reservists were drafted into a haphazard cleanup process — though "cleanup" doesn't convey the perilous, Sisyphean ordeal they faced.
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We also try to figure out what Tom Cruise is trying to do with his Jack Reacher franchise, and break down the Sisyphean task Ewan McGregor gave himself by trying to adapt a Philip Roth novel.
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The Sisyphean task of organizing everything just so I can then use and disorganize it all, followed by an endless cycle of reorganizing and disorganizing until the day I die, defied all logic in my mind.
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It's a question that Officer Alston admits to puzzling over constantly, as he and Flanagan carry out the Sisyphean labor of rounding up prostitutes toward the end of their shift and releasing them the next morning.
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In this new era of extremes, property owners, taxpayers — and the officials they elect — will need to take a serious look at their lakefronts and decide whether armoring up is a wise investment, or a Sisyphean venture.
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It is the Sisyphean task of obit editors to stockpile "advances" for as many of the newsworthy undead as possible, and when Marv took the job he commissioned a blizzard of them from colleagues throughout the newsroom.
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Under President Trump, the White House news briefing — once a Sisyphean burden for rumpled reporters — became the hottest reality show in Washington, a star-making showcase for journalists where heated exchanges went viral and drove big ratings.
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When I start convincing myself that I'm a useless scrap of spoiling sentient meat whose sole value is in whether I meet the Sisyphean standards of productivity I keep setting for myself, that is my depression talking.
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Amidst what can feel like a Sisyphean battle for the right to make decisions for their own bodies, and stories that may be disturbing, triggering, and challenging for women to share, there is a tenderness that runs throughout.
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I decided that an actual ending would be better than just adding in higher numbers because I wanted it to feel like a real, tangible, delightful accomplishment after the long cold Sisyphean experience of playing high-level Threes.
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Yet that policy would acknowledge that euro-area countries share a fiscal fate, relieve young Italians of doing penance for their forebears' sins and make fiscal probity for Italy a less Sisyphean task—and, perhaps, more politically tolerable.
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But in the wake of smart horror commentaries like Get Out, it would be refreshing to see the film integrate ghostly thrills with the Sisyphean saga of gun violence in America—because few things are scarier than that.
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Most of these depict carefully coiffed women swinging from a sequined chandelier, lolling on a golden throne, or trapped in the Sisyphean loop of a boomerang shimmy in front of a wall that commands NO STANDING, ONLY DANCING.
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Fighting these takedown requests can often be a costly and sisyphean affair, as recently documented by a German music professor who faced numerous takedown requests for classical music pieces that were in the public domain under German law.
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Democrats need to keep trying, no matter how Sisyphean the effort, if only to show that at least one party has more interest in getting something done for struggling Americans than in positioning itself for the 2018 election.
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The go-to framework for regulation is usually antitrust, but if the internet has an inherent tendency for winner-takes-all consolidation then regulation by breaking up may be both a Sisyphean task and a counterproductive destruction of value.
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Russia's actions, part of an organized scheme laid out last month in an 88-page report produced by investigators from the World Anti-Doping Agency, have also made determining which athletes cheated — and which did not — a Sisyphean challenge.
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Technology's being developed to try to understand and decode the actual sentiment behind words, but for the time being, the best way to go about the Sisyphean task of content moderation are still good ol' fashioned human content mods.
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Painting in enamel on aluminum, Siena's modestly scaled compositions are compressed records of a Sisyphean task, moving ahead line by line (step by step) until he reaches the end, having filled the surface with rigorously choreographed, non-expressive marks.
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Instead of attempting the Sisyphean task of recreating these monumental exhibitions in full, the curators at the Getty do their best to offer glimpses of what they were like and their significance through photographs, drawings, notes, posters, and correspondence.
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And it gave me pause because I realized my daughter was born into a world where "It just works" is (largely) a truism and not a miracle tonic to a Sisyphean search for a possibly nonexistent printer driver or service pack.
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Those with the gumption to prosecute quickly discover their task is Sisyphean when confronted by a standard that instructs a jury to judge an officer's actions not by what a reasonable civilian would do, but by what another officer would do.
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"[UK PM] Theresa May is always talking about removing the safe spaces and shutting down part of the Internet were terrorists exchange instructions and propaganda and that sort of stuff, and I just feel that's a Sisyphean task," he tells TechCrunch.
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While we like to talk about the stagnation of phone sales as a problem of innovation in the smartphone industry, it might, just maybe, also have something to do with the near-sisyphean task that pre-ordering a phone has become.
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This helped lay the groundwork for the Affordable Care Act— which still proved to be a Sisyphean challenge—and allowed the House to pass an extensive agenda, including ambitious climate change legislation, within the first few months of the 111th Congress.
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Instead of merely requiring greater transparency of social media and empowering the courts to ban users and website—the latter being a slow, time-consuming, and ultimately Sisyphean solution—perhaps governments should outright ban Facebook and other platforms ahead of elections.
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And—in what has proved the most infamous of Co-op policies, the reason that members are forever climbing a Sisyphean hill of "work alerts" and suspensions—you would have to compensate for missing a single shift by working two.
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But building anything new in New York City is often a Sisyphean task, requiring multiple approvals from a variety of city and state agencies, and needing to win the support of notoriously truculent community members, skeptical of new development and gentrification.
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Its mischievous jaunt is belied by the turmoil that inspired it: The toxic corrosion of shame and repression, and the Sisyphean struggle to reconcile the identity we present to the world with the fractured reality of our pain and imperfections.
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Set alongside it is "High-rise No 1" (1974) by the lesser-known Renate Eisenegger, in which she monotonously crawls around a high-rise building block, her white-painted face erasing her identity as she performs the Sisyphean act of ironing the floor.
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After exercising an almost inhuman amount of self-control by dutifully getting up early rather than hitting snooze, only for your painstakingly applied makeup to slide off by the time you grab your 4 PM snack, renders it something of a Sisyphean task.
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That their sheer scale, multiplied by the wide spectrum of beliefs held by their users, makes moderation of any kind so Sisyphean and so subjective a task that the only possible solution is to allow for just about any idea, or any customer.
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One Aleppo-based Syrian journalist in the Turkish city of Gaziantep said rebels' foreign backers have ordered them to wage a Sisyphean fight for the same handful of towns, which rebels have repeatedly taken from IS but have then been unable to hold.
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Let me say that I have nothing but admiration for the long-suffering trust and safety team at Twitter, which has been tasked with the Sisyphean job of controlling humanity and scaling civility, armed only with some easily gamed and capriciously enforced rules.
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She's on a mission to make us think about what we buy — especially the ubiquitous palm oil that's destroying rain forests as well as young bodies — yet the Sisyphean task of halting human greed gives this wide-ranging exposé an unavailing cast.
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There's no word on if the network will bring original host Kirk Fogg back to narrate the children's Sisyphean efforts, or if the life-or-death mission will end with the children humiliated and defeated, as the vast majority of the game show's episodes did.
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We, the cliché, Garfield-like zombies who insist that no one talk to us until we've burned our mouths with hot brown liquid each morning, assign the beverage an idiotic and downright Sisyphean task: Prevent the horrible sickness known as caffeine withdrawal (which includes constipation).
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Proceeding to the last eight or beyond has become a Sisyphean task for the Mexicans who have gone out in the round of 16 at the last six World Cups and have not reached the quarter-finals since they hosted the competition in 1986.
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Confronted with the Sisyphean task of improving their own user experience, media companies are instead doing what the music and movie industry did when confronted with a superior unsanctioned user experience: They are responding with legal threats and attempts to make the unsanctioned user experience worse.
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The best news in this seemingly-Sisyphean struggle -- in which we push this slimy rock up the hill, only to see it roll down again -- is that, for once, we are seeing enough perpetrators at the same time to know that this is not a partisan matter.
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"I guarantee you, every team's thought process is: Let's figure out a way to get past LeBron, and we can play for a title," said the Raptors' DeMar DeRozan, who compared the challenge to the Sisyphean task facing opponents of the Michael Jordan-era Chicago Bulls.
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The exhibition narrows its focus on Colo's 223 performance, "Superman 222," in which he runs, shirtless and gasping, down the West Side Highway, 225 pieces of wood tethered to his body and dragging behind him — the Sisyphean struggle a direct response to Puerto Rico's proposed statehood.
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But if tabulating untruths seems Sisyphean, at least we can catalogue them, the same way lepidopterologists catalogue butterflies—each wrong statement may be beautiful or perplexing in its own way, but if we pin them down under glass we can sort them out into a few discrete species.
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But to call her that would be to misread her entirely: Rather, Grace Jones is a refreshing anti-headliner in a music and festival culture obsessed by reunions and novelty, and, more broadly, a pop culture equally obsessed by female performers' Sisyphean struggle to stay "relevant" as they age.
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The only flaw was that by the time I got towards the end of one tray, I was determined to finish what was in front of me so they'd have to bring a whole new batch of warmer, even momentarily fresher snow crabs, which created an almost Sisyphean cycle.
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He braved it for a minute or two, then tried to dry himself with the thin towel ("a Sisyphean task," he said.) He emerged in most of his street clothes and tipped his sopping boxers into a trash can, "a prisoner of war of the Rockaways," he said.
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MADRID — The Spanish city of Cádiz will undertake what some may see as a Sisyphean task: relocating 5,000 pigeons hundreds of miles away after a complaint that the birds are driving away tourists from the terraces of cafes in the most visited part of the southern port city.
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In the weeks following Doria's visit to Avenida 23 de Maio, artists and protesters combatted the encroaching grey tide by paint-bombing office blocks and smearing the asphalt with color by the tin-full, setting off a Sisyphean cycle for city workers tasked with painting the city grey again.
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She becomes fixated on making the doll's eyes more life-like, and this becomes a Sisyphean task that makes her makes her engage in behaviors that are usually ascribed to the "tortured artist" cliché, going all the way to completely identifying herself with her works, that is, lose her sanity.
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The Fair Lady is transporting wheat; the wheat is getting wet, and so the small crew sets out on a Sisyphean mission to salvage what they can in small, buckets and an ad hoc pulley system, out of a container that appears to be the size of a high rise condo building.
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And while possibly no politician could have made the ins and outs of trade agreements seem sexy, May, who once described "running through fields of wheat" as the naughtiest thing she'd ever done, and refuses even to discuss which TV dramas she enjoys most, has faced a particularly Sisyphean task keeping the British public engaged.
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David Marcus — who Court backed when he built payments company Zong and eventually sold it to eBay before he went on to become a major mover and shaker at Facebook (and now has the possibly Sisyphean task of building Calibra) — is on the list, but that has not translated into Felix dabbling in cryptocurrency.
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I just did my 2018 recap of expenditures in the Sisyphean hope of keeping to a budget this year, and the amount of actual cash I spent was quite minute; I hardly ever go to an A.T.M. anymore, and even a few bucks between friends at lunch tend to circulate virtually, via an app, nowadays.
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In six deft lines, the poet skewers the avaricious and the wasteful, who (in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's translation) are shoving great, Sisyphean stones at one another in an absurd jousting match: Here saw I people, more than elsewhere, many, On one side and the other, with great howls, Rolling weights forward by main force of chest.
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Raising money for orchestras these days can seem like a Sisyphean task — the mogul David Geffen recently lamented that more donors had not come forward to support the New York Philharmonic after he pledged $100 million toward its new hall project — but it is not only the mighty L.A. Phil that has brought in impressive amounts this year.
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It is also Sisyphean to mesh admissions' idealistic language with a university's practical goals of maintaining its tenuous spot in the rankings; to contextualize the relative strengths of various high schools, student achievement, intellectual curiosity, leadership qualities, drive, and character while making sense of test scores (spanning different regions and economic backgrounds) that are within a 150-point range.
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While the advisory board created by PROMESA was intended to give the government the political cover for the difficult moves necessary return to economic growth, its previous governor, Ricardo Rossello, was more preoccupied with his Sisyphean goal of achieving statehood than dealing with the island's debt problem, and actually cut taxes before scandal forced him from office last year.
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On a recent Friday, John Kerry, the Secretary of State, rode in a motorcade from the Palace Hotel, on Madison Avenue, to the U.N. It was Earth Day, and representatives from more than a hundred countries were gathering to sign the Paris Climate Agreement—a symbolic event but, by the Sisyphean standards of environmental diplomacy, a big deal.
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Few museums have significant performance collections to begin with, and even when a museum does have performance works, obtaining the rights required to publicly share documentation of live performance can prove a Sisyphean task, as it typically requires contacting any artists who contributed to the work, as well as the original authors of the works, or their estates.
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Adapted from Laurents's 1952 play "The Time of the Cuckoo," which was a popular hit for Shirley Booth (and for Katharine Hepburn in the subsequent film version, "Summertime"), the show's script plays Cupid to a brash and skeptical secretary from the States, pushing middle age as if it were a Sisyphean rock, and a dashing, life-affirming Italian antiques dealer.
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" Lakhdar the Sisyphean migrant, shuttling back and forth across the Mediterranean; Francis Mirković the repentant Balkan crusader, toting his informer's briefcase as if it were the Book of Judgment; Franz Ritter the lovelorn scholar, lost in remembered cities and the Turkish riffs in Mozart—Énard's heroes inhabit what Ritter calls a "barzakh, the world between worlds into which artists and travelers fall.
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And so that's why we started doing our own comm stuff, and then we started looking at media, and we realized that if you're not part of the cultural conversation you could work your entire life trying to, in a Sisyphean way, move things forward and be crushed if you don't connect with people at the heart-and-mind level.
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There is an eccentric humor to the entire exercise: an artist, holding an absurd pose associated with classical statuary, walks back and forth with Sisyphean pointlessness, while the small hole in his t-shirt's right underarm and his glasses tucked in his left breast pocket endow him with the appearance of someone who's come to fix the leak in your roof.
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In an increasingly post-truth era—where Kid Rock's nascent Senate bid is endorsed by the 53rd Governor of New York and jurors are dismissed from trials for voicing their distaste with the way Martin Shkreli "disrespected the Wu-Tang Clan"—determining what does and does not constitute a "taco" is a Sisyphean task, bound to induce an existential crisis in even the most profound of thinkers.
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Crumpled sheets of paper on the floor attest to the anguished perfection required to wrest the right word or phrase from the welter that beckons, but in the end the Sisyphean labor of writing—the means by which thoughts or imaginings are transferred from the mind to the page—is a mystery that no one image or series of images can hope to capture.
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For the most part, its characters are set in their ways before they even show up on screen, and though there are some brief gleams of humanity — Alejandro's care for the kidnapped teenager who, like Kate in the previous film, seems to remind him of his murdered daughter — for the most part they start out as stock tortured antiheroes who seem trapped in a Sisyphean loop.
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You just won't, and what's more, you'll never have time to catch up on every aspect and angle of your favorite genre, because time will keep marching on, artists will keep making new art, and you've got to pay rent and walk the dog and remember to eat a fucking salad once in awhile on top of all of that active listening, and it's all Sisyphean at best.
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If the war had a Groundhog Day-like feel to many American soldiers (who had to continually retake the same towns and streets from insurgents they had fought only months before), the Iraqis were even more aware of the Sisyphean nature of the endless conflict and bloodshed — losing loved ones in escalating clashes between Sunnis and Shiites, and deprived of essential services like electricity and clean water, and any sense of safety.
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