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Перевод: Procrustean

[прилагательное]
прокрустов; жесткий

Тезаурус:

1. Perhaps not, but while the 7-;9 hour sleeping habit is certainly based on physiological need, it seems to be a socially defined and somewhat procrustean norm imposed on all of us whatever our individual needs, which are probably genetically determined.
2. This congruence took a somewhat arbitrary and procrustean form and led to conflicts of interest, particularly in the case of the Head of the Art Department.
3. So pragmatism can be rescued as a good explanation for our cross-section picture of adjudication only by procrustean machinery that seems wildly inappropriate.
4. Like the Cortes, opened in 1943, the Fuero de los Espaoles was designed to give the appearance of a certain free-play but, in reality, always within the Procrustean confines of the Francoist system.
5. Stencil is the personification of a procrustean function rather than a character in any realistic sense, partly a parody of such questing scholars as Robert Graves, partly an imitation of the obsessed protagonist in Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight .
6. The imposition of this Procrustean model necessitated preventing the resurgence of the liberal democratic ideas and values which had informed the Republic and, at the same time, managing the diverse forces which composed the Nationalist camp.
7. This is a critic who uses sliding scales, not one fixed Procrustean rule.