The way he never sits still and endlessly pushes his limits to become what he is.
I find myself endlessly pushing myself; I feel driven to get to the top of any ladder I climb.
A street sweeper endlessly pushes a small pile of debris back and forth while he pauses to harangue passers-by in "Mon Oncle" (1958).
He compared Mr. Galbraith to Sisyphus, endlessly pushing the same rock up a hill that always turns out to be too steep.
At the moment, the image of a strong man correlates with the dominant narrative, endlessly pushed by the Kremlin, of Russia as a strong, rich and powerful country.
He was omnipresent in the press rooms at City Hall and the State Capitol in Albany, a wiry man with a gray mustache, bags under his eyes and a Bluetooth headset that seemed to have been permanently lodged inside his ear — endlessly pushing, prodding and pitching stories.
In a review of "John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics" by Richard Parker (Farrar, 2005), J. Bradford DeLong wrote in Foreign Affairs that Mr. Galbraith's lifelong sermon of social democracy was destined to fail in a land of "rugged individualism". He compared Mr. Galbraith to Sisyphus, endlessly pushing the same rock up a hill that always turns out to be too steep.
In a cruel twist of fate, the spectre of the sainted Tony Benn hangs over the whole grim drama: he was the guru of the leftwing anti-EU position we now call Lexit, but also the man who endlessly pushed the idea that activists should have the whip hand over parliamentarians.
And his philosophy of the absurd has left us with a striking image of the human fate: Sisyphus endlessly pushing his rock up the mountain only to see it roll back down each time he gains the top.
