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Leonard, Elmore, on "hooptedoodle," 153; debilitating cool of, 153-159; smoothly planed surfaces of, 155; Sartre as summarized by, 156; perfect-ear imperfections of, 157-158
Who's Who 2005
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Leonard, Elmore, on "hooptedoodle," 153; debilitating cool of, 153-159; smoothly planed surfaces of, 155; Sartre as summarized by, 156; perfect-ear imperfections of, 157-158
Who's Who 2005
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Leonard, Elmore, on "hooptedoodle," 153; debilitating cool of, 153-159; smoothly planed surfaces of, 155; Sartre as summarized by, 156; perfect-ear imperfections of, 157-158
Who's Who 2005
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What the writer is doing, he’s writing, perpetrating hooptedoodle, perhaps taking another shot at the weather, or has gone into the character’s head, and the reader either knows what the guy’s thinking or doesn’t care.
Wright's Writing Corner: Putting In the Stuff People Skip. arhyalon 2010
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Long before The Washington Post described him as "crime fiction's greatest living practitioner," he was writing novels about the old West, and in that genre he was a different man — addressing the reader directly, getting into his characters 'heads, and engaging in other things he now dismisses as "hooptedoodle."
The Prisoner of Cool 2005
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What the writer is doing, he's writing, perpetrating hooptedoodle, perhaps taking another shot at the weather, or has gone into the character's head, and the reader either knows what the guy's thinking or doesn't care.
Ten guidelines for better writing - that work DAVID BISHOP 2007
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Long before The Washington Post described him as "crime fiction's greatest living practitioner," he was writing novels about the old West, and in that genre he was a different man — addressing the reader directly, getting into his characters 'heads, and engaging in other things he now dismisses as "hooptedoodle."
The Prisoner of Cool 2005
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Long before The Washington Post described him as "crime fiction's greatest living practitioner," he was writing novels about the old West, and in that genre he was a different man — addressing the reader directly, getting into his characters 'heads, and engaging in other things he now dismisses as "hooptedoodle."
The Prisoner of Cool 2005
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Had too much of this hooptedoodle and good-fellow stuff.
Babbit 2004
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Had too much of this hooptedoodle and good-fellow stuff.
Babbitt 1922
whichbe commented on the word hooptedoodle
A literary word that, technically, has no place being in this dictionary. Hooptedoodle is stuff that gets in the way of a story's making progress, it is wordy, unnecessary, space-taking, and, typically, should be edited out. (From ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology)
October 11, 2008