| 单词 | procrustean bed |
| 例句 | 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 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 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 |
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