When Andrea Miller began choreographing her latest dance, "Sit, Kneel, Stand," her point of inspiration was the myth of Sisyphus and his eternal task of rolling a boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down.
Without Cameron's eye for detail and obsession with the lives of ordinary people, later movies in both futuristic sagas have languished in a sea of vapidity, unable to interest their audiences in protagonists with less apparent humanity than the merciless extraterrestrials and metal killing machines whose eternal task it is to hunt them down.
"Whereas with the Obama inauguration on January 20 , 2009 we, with God's help, rededicate ourselves anew to the eternal tasks before us necessary to ensure for generations to come that our 'government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth'".
Captain James Cook We take up the task eternal, and the burden, and the lesson, Pioneers!
To serve their god, to fear him, and yet to love him without question, and, through such subservience, to hope to join him in some eternal paradise -- a not-easy task these days, it seems, as they have to spend an inordinate amount of time fending off heathens, pagans, atheists, and Christmas killers, most of whom are probably oversexed and, worse, oversexed toward their own sex.
And if that be true, then the task of rendering someone fit for eternal joy may be far more complicated, even for an omnipotent being, than one might have imagined.
Philosophers have wanted to find ultimate standards, absolute standards, eternal standards, whether of Truth, Beauty or Goodness, and have supposed that their task is to measure the world by them.
The latter task was irrelevant to his proof of the existence of the eternal consciousness.
If the l'Cie complete their task in time, they are transformed to crystal and according to legend gain eternal life; otherwise they become mindless monsters called Cie'th.
It is the director's tricky task to elicit the passion, rage, valor and sacrifice of old, not to mention eternal domestic crises.
The Financial Times thinks your task would be easier without "a rather jumbled, inelegant hang," and, "Tate Modern's eternal problem of historical vacuum".
