Sisyphean

1 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.

2 Elderly people hauling themselves, step by Sisyphean step, onto the bus.

3 This is a feminist movie with a Sisyphean dimension that’s disquietingly universal.

4 The world is riddled with such exasperating errors, and Ms. Streisand sees herself as burdened with the Sisyphean task of uprooting them.

5 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.

6 This Sisyphean debate just keeps going and going.

7 Though voices both welcoming and hostile to women judges are represented, Ms. al-Faqih’s likely Sisyphean battle to reach her position feels insufficiently underlined.

8 They’d plot and strive and fail in an almost Sisyphean cycle, but they’d always have their friends to fall back on when the disappointment bore down a little too hard.

9 In the meantime, I've been sucked wholesale back into the game's Sisyphean survival mode.

10 In his elegiac 2012 novel, “The Yellow Birds,” Kevin Powers took a different tack, turning the Sisyphean nature of war in Iraq into a kind of sad parable.

11 The human aspect has been assigned to the flesh-and-blood cast members, and it is a Sisyphean duty.

12 With tens of thousands of scripts pouring into the industry every year, most of them lousy, it often felt like a Sisyphean task.

13 What’s more, he accepts the Sisyphean task of tussling with a writer who has fallen into an anonymity in Algeria almost as deep as the dead Arab’s.

14 On again, and here is the Sisyphean Finnish artist who puts shattered trees back together, root and branch, producing supernaturally animated glades.

15 Making it past Le Baron’s door is a Sisyphean task for those without connections.

16 The first-person narrator, Jay, is a former “Bad Boy of American Letters” who has abandoned his self-proclaimed Sisyphean struggle to run a company that “publishes commercial fiction and creates intellectual property for large media companies.”

17 With the important exception of Scrat — the obsessive rodent whose Sisyphean pursuit of an acorn is one of the great love stories of our time — the “Ice Age” movies go in the opposite direction.

18 How many books wasn’t I reading to spend time on this self-imposed Sisyphean task, say?

19 A white identity was constructed for me 25 years ago and now unravelling this construct – and asking some of my Irish family to unravel it with me – feels like a Sisyphean task.

20 Schulz made it funny with characters who faced a Sisyphean suburban world with resilience and curiosity.

他的生活对人们是一种警示,自我意识和含而不露的讽刺并不是缺乏感情的代名词.

1 徒劳的

no-dice wan useless unavailable vain barren unproductive unprofitable unfruitful unavailing unprevailing

2 徒劳

no-dice wan useless unavailable vain barren unproductive unprofitable unfruitful unavailing unprevailing uselessly baffle the stone of Sisyphus beat the air knock at an open door hold a candle to the sun bite a file to no avail to no end

3 永无休止的

unfailing

4 徒劳无益的

ineffectual