What's the difference between sisyphean and sisyphus?
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.
Sisyphus
Definition:
(n.) A king of Corinth, son of Aeolus, famed for his cunning. He was killed by Theseus, and in the lower world was condemned by Pluto to roll to the top of a hill a huge stone, which constantly rolled back again, making his task incessant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sisyphus-like, you are going to have to roll this bloody rock up the hill tomorrow in exactly the same way."
(2) Because they wage a losing battle against death, all physicians resemble Sisyphus, eternally condemned to perform an impossible task.
(3) Worse still, in real life rather than mythology, King Sisyphus himself gets to skip the original rock-rolling punishment for being crafty, cruel, and hubristic, very like the heedless financial markets.