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单词 Procrustean
例句 Procrustean
It’s a mark of Piñeiro’s astuteness that he doesn’t force the actors’ lives into the play’s Procrustean contours but, rather, finds a few subtle and shifted echoes of the work in their offstage activities. A Great New Movie, An Overrated Old One 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z
If you’re the parent of a child with special needs who’s felt the cold procrustean hands of the public school system, you know what this father is up against. Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z
But the snippets of Brando on the soundtrack are forced into a Procrustean narrative that, once again, detaches the recordings from the practical, physical circumstances of their creation. Just Let Marlon Brando Talk 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z
Perhaps it’s worth mentioning here that zero — that’s zero — Syrian refugees allowed into the U.S. through our procrustean refugee program have been involved in a fatal terrorist attack. What happens after the next big terrorist attack? Trump is paving the way toward a terrifying crackdown 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z
This may sound like some pleasant if not spicy and highly unconventional pastime, but is in fact and literally a procrustean bed of torture. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z
To compel the age to conform to the measure of his own conceptions he often found procrustean methods necessary. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z
In improvement he was somewhat hasty and procrustean. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z
You're trying to fit me into this procrustean notion that you have of me. Jerry Brown: California's Once and Future Governor? 2010-07-22T08:55:00Z
Iron-bound, impersonal ethics, the procrustean bed of rules, he soon saw at their true value as the deification of averages. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9
It is an error to suppose that beauty must be racked on a procrustean bed of formula. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life
And we have got to deal gently with them too; not force them upon the procrustean bed of our methods, and give them their choice of these or none. Amusement: A Force in Christian Training
It has been criticised as too mechanical, as illogical in arrangement of classes, as presenting many incongruities in its divisions, as procrustean, as wholly inadequate in its classification of jurisprudence, etc. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
He was exceedingly emotional and intellectual; and the procrustean bed of a creed would have been intolerable torture to him. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
Iron- bound, impersonal ethics, the procrustean bed of rules, he soon saw at their true value as the deification of averages. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
That of Aytoun was formed in the schools, principally modeled by masters—made to fit a procrustean bed—and was, therefore, eminently artificial. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01
Either way he might meet a procrustean fate; and, although a saving amount of theism might remain, he would not be sound or comfortable. Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism
The advertisements informed him that numbers of authors were abandoning that procrustean system; hopeless as he was, he might as well try his chance with a book which could be written in a few weeks. New Grub Street
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