| But they had no right to tyrannise over others, and tie them down to their own Procrustean bed. |
| It forced violin playing into a Procrustean bed unsuited to its true nature and mission. |
| Iron-bound, impersonal ethics, the Procrustean bed of rules, he soon saw at their true value as the deification of averages. |
| I'll be picky till my fingers bleed if it succeeds even in splintering the boards of the Procrustean bed our culture puts most women in. |
| My purposes, my views, my beliefs were the Procrustean bed upon which every act of hers was measured. |
| 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. |
