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/sɑː(ɹ)ˈduːdəldəm/ · noun
(uncommon) Well-made works of drama that have trivial, insignificant, or melodramatic plots..
Naturally this critic loses no chance to express his contempt for what he calls “Sardoodledom:” the cult of the “wellmade” play. He gives M. Sardou no bail, and barely allows Mr. Pinero to go at large on good behavior.
What is new is that we have in movies an art form so exclusively given over to Sardoodledom that a Yale professor thinks that Sardoodledom is ingrained in the celluloid.
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Sardoodledom means (uncommon) Well-made works of drama that have trivial, insignificant, or melodramatic plots..
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Naturally this critic loses no chance to express his contempt for what he calls “Sardoodledom:” the cult of the “wellmade” play. He gives M. Sardou no bail, and barely allows Mr. Pinero to go at large on good behavior.
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