“Of what, I did not know” is a stock procrustean device to fill out the stanza. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Not so wise is the agency gazing into a technological crystal ball and trying to force innovation to conform to its procrustean vision. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)
Darkman - I object to your procrustean analysis re: obscure words not being a sign of cleverness, if not wit. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Once the bridge was negotiated, I saw the slow rise of a hill, carefully manicured on both sides of a narrow walkway with procrustean green fields, dotted in places by crabapple trees that attracted fleets of frenzied wasps when the season fermented in sick sweetness, falling fruit mashed muted viridian in streaks and lopsided buttons across the sidewalk. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Experience shows us that visual SF is a procrustean genre and source material that does not fit its needs will be altered until it does. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Obviously it cannot be made to fit the procrustean bed he has made. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Such procrustean bed reasoning is why so many individuals had to be sacrificed to the zeitgeist. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And so, I submit to you that I'm the one who accepts the Bible's own authority, which demands of me that I not squeeze it into a procrustean bed or ride roughshod over its diversity. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)
Again you are running with the procrustean argument - because so many state schools are poor, delenda est Eton. ❋ Newmania (2007)
By melding various aesthetics in a quest for objectivity that ends up being more procrustean than coherent, the editors produce lists that feel, to me at least, almost random. ❋ Unknown (2009)
'Again you are running with the procrustean argument - because so many state schools are poor, delenda est Eton.' ❋ Newmania (2007)
Following the same argument, bye bye private health care, and further down the road any form of restaurant, product or whatever that some but not all can afford, all in the name of deadly procrustean social engineering masquerading as 'social justice', for which read envy. ❋ Newmania (2007)
Story after story tries to fit the Latino vote into the procrustean bed of old-school, black v. white politics. ❋ Unknown (2008)
First, I don't buy the carbon accounting presented to advance this procrustean plan: Older trees can absorb CO 2 for centuries after reaching maturity, while replanted forests can emit more CO 2 than they sequester until the new trees are as much as 20 years old. ❋ Alex Steffen (2008)
Often they are done for a procrustean purpose, never stated, of bringing data into conformance with theory. ❋ Unknown (2007)
For many Americans now, by contrast, ancient rituals are intolerably old-fashioned and rigid, at once crusty and procrustean. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Those are rather totalitarian or even procrustean words, if he actually said them. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The apparently-still-lively notion that desire can or should be forced into some sort of ideological procrustean bed is one that drives me absolutely batshit. particularly when it comes from people who I think ought to know better. ❋ Unknown (2006)
