Sisyphean task

"We have more than a Sisyphean task ahead of us," he said.

Just deciding where each item should go seemed a Sisyphean task.

There is enough other work to be done without embarking on this kind of Sisyphean task.

Trying to improve its often-battered image can feel like a Sisyphean task.

The director of the board and others fear that getting these workers trained for electronic voting will be a Sisyphean task.

Preventing criminal aliens from returning, officials said, is the final Sisyphean task.

I'll take a Sisyphean task over a Herculean one any day.

And moving one can be a Sisyphean task.

The offenders are committed to a Sisyphean task.

With this dossier, she has shown that even Sisyphean tasks can be completed successfully.

But no matter how much work is done, keeping Rome in shape remains a Sisyphean task.

But moving magazines off a newsstand has become a Sisyphean task, even for a megastar.

The crickets were not inclined to hold still, and so it seemed an almost sisyphean task.

It is a Sisyphean task in a city of 20 million, where rooftops are littered with satellite dishes.

What state officials describe as an effort simply to treat the most serious cases others characterize as an almost Sisyphean task.

It was a Sisyphean task, but cleaning gave me the illusion of control when in reality I had none.

Each time the city is completed the great molars crash together, and the Sisyphean task starts anew.

Developing such policies is a Sisyphean task.

While it can feel like Christmas every day, reviewing music can also be a Sisyphean task.

But between winter's last chrysanthemum and spring's first daffodil, eating lean is a Sisyphean task.

Although correcting the fictions of psychiatric history is a Sisyphean task, I would like to try.

The fortress is protected by a discriminatory system of election laws that has made getting on the ballot a Sisyphean task.

Austerity alone will seem a Sisyphean task.

Simply publicizing the American Symphony venture is a Sisyphean task.

Often I am asked to assist patients with the daily Sisyphean task of balancing meals, activity and medication.