procrustean

But they had no right to tyrannise over others, and tie them down to their own procrustean bed.

It is revealed as the Procrustean bed which cramps us up until we ache inside.

They are too often broken outright on the Procrustean bed; they are probably always disfigured.

To him the judicial office was a Procrustean one of fitting each case to the legal bed, if necessary by a surgical operation.

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

Then by a Procrustean process he packs the complex and irregular facts into his scheme.

He was clad, as usual, in an immaculate gray frock-coat, and showed no trace of the Procrustean bed he sleeps in.

Freethought has no procrustean bed upon which it may bring all of its constituency to one and the same size.

On its Procrustean bed the stunted members of the race are racked; the giants are cut down.

It is an error to suppose that beauty must be racked on a procrustean bed of formula.