procrustean

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The wild variety of American life can never be clamped down on the Procrustean bed of a single form of schooling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

There is grandeur in this new view of life, so why force it into the Procrustean bed of nineteenth-century theorizing?

From Scientific American • Jun. 15, 2019

His verdicts, moreover, remain freshly minted and remarkably perceptive, however much he crams them into the Procrustean bed of his analytical framework.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2016

Rather, I see the Procrustean formatting of the three films as failures of imagination, which began before the shoot, while the three filmmakers were wearing their screenwriter hats.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2016

We then proceed to apply the Procrustean bed principle with the very acme of sang froid.

From The Vitalized School by Pearson, Francis B.