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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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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Had too much of this hooptedoodle and good-fellow stuff.
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That's the trouble with all this class-brother hooptedoodle. ''
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Thats the trouble with all this class-brother hooptedoodle.
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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.
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That’s the trouble with all this class-brother hooptedoodle.”
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That's the trouble with all this class-brother hooptedoodle. "
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