procrustean

It was all the more effective for its Procrustean simplicity.

Bloom never pauses to consider obvious alternatives to his Procrustean theory.

And both rather Procrustean I'm sorry to say.

Below 75, either this quiz is a procrustean bed or else ignorance is bliss.

A Procrustean bed is an arbitrary standard to which exact conformity is forced.

(I am dropping "his or her" purely for Procrustean space reasons.)

One can see that the name "science fiction" is too Procrustean a bed, too tight a corset, to fit the whole field comfortably.

A Procrustean solution is the undesirable practice of tailoring data to fit its container or some other preconceived structure.

Oh yes, one more painfuly Procrustean detail: the newer version includes a libretto; the older and better one does not.

It is a Procrustean hubris, proclaiming: "I have made the perfect bed for your repose.

The unique goal of the Procrustean solution is not win-win, but rather that Procrustes wins and the other loses.

Our search for utopia led us to lay everyone on a Procrustean bed in which the individual was cut to what was thought to be ideal size.

Iron- bound, impersonal ethics, the procrustean bed of rules, he soon saw at their true value as the deification of averages.

This is bad for the millions of people who end up judging themselves by those Procrustean standards, but great for doctors, dentists and Cosmopolitan magazine.

So pragmatism can be rescued as a good explanation for our cross-section picture of adjudication only by procrustean machinery that seems wildly inappropriate.

In particular, the practice of passing non-Western art through the filter of Western theory has produced its share of Procrustean thinking.

To try to describe "Don't Tell Anyone" in terms of a single theme or argument would be an exercise in Procrustean bedmaking.

Others, varying the stupidity, would insist upon a Procrustean adjustment thus (del'cate) an adjustment recommended to all such words as silvery, murmuring.

All Presidents since Franklin Roosevelt have had their reputations stretched or shortened by a Procrustean journalistic device known as the "first hundred days."

I'm afraid that Ms. Friday is trying to stretch Ms. Collette into her Procrustean bed.

This desire to define citizenship and belonging in the procrustean terms of ancient culture over all other considerations is where Hindutva and Zionism converge.

This congruence took a somewhat arbitrary and procrustean form and led to conflicts of interest, particularly in the case of the Head of the Art Department.

The dead hand of regulation and Procrustean guides actually benefit the place in Broadstairs that your Rachel Cook visited, and the chain hotels elsewhere.

Mr. Crispo, Mr. France writes, "saw in the world a Procrustean conspiracy - immutably rigid rules of expected conduct that required a rote response.

Like Gorbachev, de Klerk is cast in a partnership with collaborators he cannot control, including both the popular leaders he freed and the Procrustean security apparatus he inherited.