Nor do I think it's terribly difficult to nail down these two grand natural-law religious principles to the Procrustean bed of reality dealt with by government day to day. |
Thousands of workers are being made redundant and workers' fundamental labour and social rights are being cut to fit to the Procrustean bed. |
Couto's book originates in the need to explain an identity that eludes the Procrustean dogmas of language, region, even religion. |
Do we persist in committing the Procrustean crime of fitting the facts to our opinions rather than the other way around? |
Not so very different, after all, from the fundamentalists back home who are forever devising Procrustean means to arrive at unitary cultural identities. |
It is revealed as the Procrustean bed which cramps us up until we ache inside. |