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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...
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geometry Region (mathematics) Kendall, D.G. (1984). "Shape Manifolds,
Procrustean Metrics, and
Complex Projective Spaces".
Bulletin of the
London Mathematical...
- OCLC 708370438. De Vleminck, Jens (2017). "Sadism and
Masochism on the
Procrustean Bed of Hysteria: From
Psychopathia ****ualis to
Three Essays on the Theory...
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exposition was
taken as mandatory,
rather than descriptive. Disma**** by the
Procrustean interpretation,
Dewey attempted to tone down his five-step
scheme by...
- 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...
- is
incapable of
discovering the supernatural. It
thereby fashions a
Procrustean bed
which rejects any
observation which would disprove the naturalistic...
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Brecht the same
montage technique spread to the drama,
where the old
Procrustean plot
yielded to a more "epic" form of
narrative better able to cope with...
- 1979) "Djinn, No Chaser" (best novelette, 1983)
Sleepless Nights in the
Procrustean Bed (introduction) (best
related non-fiction, 1985) Medea: Harlan's World...
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Bowdoin College. I was an idle student,
negligent of
college rules and the
Procrustean details of
academic life,
rather choosing to
nurse my own
fancies than...
