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

To be sure, one lesson of European history is that it’s never a good idea to try to force Europe’s diverse peoples into a one-size-fits-all Procrustean bed.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2020

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

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

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

From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe