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Jeff Probst reminds Mike White of Sisyphus, the mythological king cursed to spend eternity trying, and failing, to push an enormous boulder up a steep slope.—David Canfield, Vanity Fair, 20 Jan. 2026 So that undermines the mythological, American bootstrapping reading of the book.—Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 20 Jan. 2026 Croft, an archaeologist and globetrotting heroine, has battled everything from gun-toting human baddies to mythological creatures across multiple games since Tomb Raider first launched in 1996.—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Jan. 2026 One critic applied a Jungian framework, offering a mythological reading of the novel as an exploration of the structure of the collective unconscious.—Amir Ahmadi Arian, The Dial, 15 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mythological