procrustean bed

What kind of Procrustean bed were they trying to shove him into?

Art historians try to force him into the Procrustean bed of theories.

Its title is no more than a Procrustean bed, and an ineffective one at that.

The revolutionaries convinced themselves people would come to love their Procrustean bed.

In any case, this is something that will have to be done cautiously rather than trying to fit it into a Procrustean bed.

It took a burning house, a Procrustean Bed, and a bit more, he said.

There were a lot of Procrustean Beds in the galaxy.

Writing shouldn't be a Procrustean bed that ideas are cut or stretched to fit.

But the logic - and the horror - of the Procrustean Bed was exactly that.

But except for the first landing parties, no one was taken to the Procrustean Beds.

You don't leave an automated Procrustean Bed set up and functioning.

No budget law can be a Procrustean bed, forcing budget cuts regardless of national needs.

You spun me such a beautiful, logical horror story of the Procrustean Bed.

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

I should have recognized also the other Greek legend: the Procrustean Bed.

Utopias are Procrustean beds; few actual human beings fit their grand schemes.

Yet evidence presented at the trial gives the exact opposite impression - of a Procrustean bed being prepared for nervous managers.

The story was the simple truth - and my first thought here before I discovered the Procrustean Bed aspects.

Record collectors regularly find themselves strapped to a Procrustean bed, agonizingly tugged in several directions at once.

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

Procrustean Beds, indeed.

He lacks a morbid interest in life's extremities; but at least he never lashes his subjects to the Procrustean bed of stereotype.

Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed (best related non-fiction, 1985)

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.

Strict chronological presentation of dated citations is at best a lexicographic Procrustean bed, at worst very misleading.