-
their legs, so as to
force them to fit the size of an iron bed. The word
Procrustean is thus used by
analogy to describe, for example,
situations where an...
- In
music theory, the wolf
fifth (sometimes also
called Procrustean fifth, or
imperfect fifth) is a
particularly dissonant musical interval spanning seven...
-
geometry Region (mathematics) Kendall, D.G. (1984). "Shape Manifolds,
Procrustean Metrics, and
Complex Projective Spaces".
Bulletin of the
London Mathematical...
- p. 16. ISBN 978-0-231-70414-4 Smith,
Stephen W. (2011). "Sudan: In a
Procrustean Bed with Crisis".
International Negotiation. 16 (1): 169–189. doi:10...
- OCLC 708370438. De Vleminck, Jens (2017). "Sadism and
Masochism on the
Procrustean Bed of Hysteria: From
Psychopathia ****ualis to
Three Essays on the Theory...
- that
evidence is not
being accurately ****essed but
rather forced into a
Procrustean mould in
order to
maintain one's
belief systems and
avoid having one's...
- can then be
combined with
others to
obtain an even
higher yield. The
Procrustean method of
entanglement concentration can be used for as
little as one...
- is
incapable of
discovering the supernatural. It
thereby fashions a
Procrustean bed
which rejects any
observation which would disprove the naturalistic...
-
authors of the 1834 New Poor Law to be, "to
force the poor into the
Procrustean bed of
their preconceived notions. To do this they
treated the poor with...
- 1979) "Djinn, No Chaser" (best novelette, 1983)
Sleepless Nights in the
Procrustean Bed (introduction) (best
related non-fiction, 1985) Medea: Harlan's World...
