Word: sisyphian
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...that Newdow believes for a moment he has won. He shrugs off Washington's reaction to his case - "I?m disappointed in all of them. They all swore an oath to a God-free constitution,"- and fully expects to take his Sisyphian struggle up to the Supreme Court. There, of course, he plans to launch a separate campaign against the ceremonial opening words. "When they say 'God save this court,?" he says, "the first word out of my mouth will be 'objection!?" The half-dozen other suits he has in motion - against the family law, against Franklin Graham?s prayer...
...Harvard police and Detective Mederos, who arrested Hogue, the Sisyphian task of cataloging the hundreds of stolen items and completing the paperwork on Hogue continued even more than a week and a half after the recovery...
...party politically undistinguishable from its bourgeois opponent. Always on the defensive, the party follows a precarious path, extremely sensitive to the international political climate. Whenever the PCF begins to climb the electoral ladder, unexpected external events drop the party to the bottom rung. The party succumbs to a Sisyphian fate each time it bids for power...
Gardner Tillson was excellent; as Barnaby Goodchild, the embodiment of changing America, he shoulders a Sisyphian role which is continually taxing and demands a variety of talents, all of which he gives it. With ease and flexibility, he imbues the role with its dynamic symbolism, as limbs akimbo, he burgeons the ever-expanding American frontier...
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