What's the difference between recur and sisyphean?
Recur
Definition:
(v. i.) To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
(v. i.) To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.
(v. i.) To resort; to have recourse; to go for help.
Example Sentences:
(1) A number of recurring chromosomal abnormalities have been identified in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
(2) Although patients treated with postoperative radiation therapy showed significantly extended survival rates as compared to those receiving surgical resection alone, the glioblastoma recurred within a 2cm margin of the primary site in more than 90% of the patients and conventional external radiation therapy with a doses of 50-60 Gy did not result in local cure.
(3) Percutaneous tenotomy performed only in patients recurring after temporary cure, drops the rate of recurrences to 13%.
(4) Ventricular tachycardia did not recur and remained noninducible in two of six patients who tolerated oral nadolol alone.
(5) Following the surgery, one patient continued to exhibit PLEDs but clinical seizures were absent PLEDs recurred in the second patient due to inadequate anticonvulsant medication.
(6) It was concluded that enhanced pressure responsiveness to recurring stress might induce or at least sustain LVH in hypertensives, due to enhanced alpha-adrenoceptor responsiveness.
(7) We are reporting the case of a 23-yr-old patient who had recurring episodes of acute pancreatitis characterized by the typical abdominal pain, elevated serum levels of pancreatic enzymes, and enlargement of the pancreas and edema on sonogram.
(8) When the condylomata recur, or when the patient has AIDS, the lesions should be examined histologically for evidence of premalignant or malignant degeneration.
(9) In the first case, the patient initially underwent surgical resection of the mass and received systemic chemotherapy, but the cyst recurred 2 months later.
(10) Spitz's nevi recur uncommonly following initial removal.
(11) In general, group II lesions affected children at an earlier age, were larger at the time of diagnosis, and recurred more frequently.
(12) These spontaneous alpha, response beta, modulatory gamma, and frequency-divided delta rhythms reveal a collateral neuroendocrine hierarchy, characterized by the pineal feedsideward phenomenon, as a feature of interactions recurring with circadian and infradian frequencies.
(13) Conversely, when obesity was permitted to recur by giving the mice free access to food, PRL levels reverted back to the original obese pattern.
(14) Haplotype analysis revealed that the Val----Met mutation has recurred frequently in the population to generate the FAP families of independent origins.
(15) Symptomatic hypercalcemia recurred during lactation after each of two pregnancies, associated with increased bone turnover (rise in ALP, osteocalcin, and urine hydroxyproline excretion) which appeared to be independent of changes in major calcium-regulating hormones.
(16) However, atrial flutter often recurs despite the use of these conventional antiarrhythmic regimens.
(17) After four hours, symptoms recurred much more often in the placebo group.
(18) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
(19) In older patients, these rather poorly differentiated tumors recur locally after excision in 50%-80% of cases depending on the organ site involved.
(20) If the pain recurred a second time, RF lesions were made if the pain was in the second or third division.
Sisyphean
Definition:
(a.) Relating to Sisyphus; incessantly recurring; as, Sisyphean labors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gnod sound as much like Steppenwolf as they do the Stooges, as much like a cult as they do a biker gang, and there is, we've decided, a deliberate use of repetition to denote the Sisyphean nature of existence.
(2) Even if the company laboured under financial constraints that sometimes made getting the paper out each night seem like a Sisyphean miracle, I could never really regret them, selfishly speaking: I had nothing more lavish with which to compare the circumstances, and if things hadn’t been so straitened I never would have had a shot at the comical series of overpromotions that defined my time there.
(3) People are trying to defend their land by planting mangroves, and Sisyphean sea walls are built and rebuilt.
(4) The "rediscovery" of these principles has spawned an industry unto itself and in this event pathology is in danger of entangling itself in an expensive, parallel (not integral) process that may be Sisyphean.
(5) Memories of the failure of the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks create fears that the challenge is a doomed, repetitive, Sisyphean labour.
(6) Sisyphean.” Brand says it is a misconception that druggies have no drive.
(7) The country faced a Sisyphean task, said one, namechecking the king of Corinth who was condemned to roll a rock up a hill only to see it bounce down again, then repeat the task for eternity.
(8) To attempt to build a model of China’s 22-million strong capital is a Sisyphean endeavour.
(9) Weir has set himself a Sisyphean schedule at these Games.
(10) The pod’s sensory apparatus is linked up to a Macbook Pro in the back, which over three years will create 3D maps of its Sisyphean journey along the pavement between Milton Keynes railway station and the shopping centre.
(11) Since journals will apparently continue to be published on paper, it is folly to persist in the use of acidic paper and thus magnify for future librarians and preservationists the already Sisyphean and costly task of deacidifying their collections.
(12) The British commanders made matters worse by spreading their troops across several small outposts along the valley, condemning them to a Sisyphean mission: they would clear insurgents from small parts of the district, but then they had to move on.
(13) Even as a city's forms of transport empower us, they limit us, reducing us to a narrow set of obsessions: New Yorkers' compulsive but futile questions about when the train will come; Angelenos' sad, Sisyphean quest for free parking; Copenhageners' budgeting for their next bicycle when their current one inevitably gets stolen; Londoners' ceaseless insistence that the whole of their infrastructure lies more or less in ruins.
(14) It is a Sisyphean task, but our best options may look like this: Better sex education.