How To Use Schmaltz In A Sentence
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It's a romantic melodrama that's not the least bit ironic nor schmaltzy.
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Technical polish was too often sacrificed to visceral excitement and excessively schmaltzy rubato - in short, the sort of interpretation that suits the image of Liszt the vulgarian.
Pianists Andre Watts and Evgeny Kissin offer Liszt recitals
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For all the dark wordplay, the album is an aural equivalent of that old American favourite, the schmaltzy biopic.
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He gets a job crooning schmaltz in California nightclubs.
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Almost 15 years later, I wondered what it was going to feel like to 'relive' that surreal experience and just hoped that the film stayed true to the events and avoided the Hollywood schmaltz that often sensationalizes historical matters.
Stacey Kalish: Invictus We Trust
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Unfortunately it succumbs to its meaner instincts in the second half, indulging in romantic schmaltz with the occasional inspired comic riff.
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You could go totally pareve and not use any schmaltz, but I think schmaltz is integral to the flavor of latkes, and I tend to have them as an evening meal with other stuff.
Latke-Vision: It Sure Beats The Yule Log
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I barely get over one season of schmaltz, before I'm faced with another.
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I found most of the songs well performed, if a bit schmaltzy.
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Whether or not you find it heavenly, though, depends on your appetite for overly orchestrated synthesized schmaltz.
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Believe me, there is nothing schmaltzy about this riveting futuristic film noir thriller.
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It's schmaltz, and infuriating schmaltz at that.
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The first full-scale dance melody was given an almost schmaltzy swing.
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I just get a little angry that Hanukkah doesn't have all that schmaltz.
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Evenings, when we are both home, we usually sit at our wooden table, boiling rose tea in which to dip the day-old bread that complements a warmed, fragrant spread of salted schmaltz, sharing our borrowed newspaper or occasional magazine by gaslight.
Deadly
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Normally, if you see a bad review on a Christmas movie its on some real syrupy, schmaltzy one.
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Celine Dion was blushing from the cheese and schmaltz when she heard it.
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The two lead actors acquit themselves admirably in their roles, rescuing the film from descending into schmaltz.
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What you get is an unpredictable, unashamedly schmaltzy canter through the singer's middle years.
Times, Sunday Times
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The script started off as smart and sharp but the end was way too schmaltzy.
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At the risk of sounding completely schmaltzy, it was the best, most meaningful Canada Day in my life thus far.
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Her second album was pure schmaltz.
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Inscribe this on my tombstone: He liked his mayo, but gave his life for his schmaltz.
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There's no denying how frustrating staid, riskless costume dramas can be, where substance is replaced with big budgets, fancy costumes and schmaltz.
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Christmas music ranges from the sublime to the stickiest schmaltz.
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If you listen to his earlier work a lot of it sounds schmaltzy by today's standards.
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It can make you laugh without anyone falling over, and it can make you cry without resorting to laid-on-with-a-trowel schmaltz.
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If homemade schmaltz is unavailable, you can use Nyafat or Margarine if you want to keep it kosher parve or meat, but if not or for a dairy meal, use softened butter instead.
The Ultimate Potato Kugel
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And I'm not the only man who folds like a deckchair at the sign of some schmaltz.
The Sun
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There is a shift among the electorate to get rid of the sleaze, spin and schmaltz and to replace it with vision, trust and integrity, she claimed.
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Sure, driving off into the sunset is a bit schmaltzy but I lke all the rest of it far more than the cliche of jumping on a grenade to save everyone.
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Okay, no more schmaltz - it's time to get blokey.
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a schmaltzy song
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Few musical reunions are anything better than schmaltzy and many are far worse.
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HaveFun is right …. the unique healthful flavor of simple kosher food … the low-fat joys of chicken liver … the low-salt melange of pastrami and corned beef … the low-cholesterol beauty of schmaltz … the low-carb wonder of the knish …
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And believe me, there is nothing schmaltzy about this riveting futuristic film noir thriller.
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A smooth and schmaltzy love song from the funk legend.
The Sun
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You can love it for its exemplarity, for being the "ultimate" disco floor filler or schmaltzy mother song.
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A grand-daughter helping her slightly dotty grand-dad tie his tie is the sort of schmaltz that sucks me in.
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There's no denying how frustrating staid, riskless costume dramas can be, where substance is replaced with big budgets, fancy costumes and schmaltz.
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The difference between great sentimentalism like Yesterday, Hey Jude or Let it Be and schmaltz is subtle but huge and the talent to pull it off is very rare.
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The film then wavers between two principal downfalls: the misguided need for schmaltz and cheap laffs.
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If three letters together represent a single sound, they constitute a trigraph, such as tch in catch and sch in schmaltz.
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At the end of the movie we drown in a sea of schmaltz.
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Oh, I know her music is mostly schmaltzy nonsense but it's fun.
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But this is no schmaltzy family drama.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fraternal filmmaking team manages to make crass, stupid, lurid jokes, while also maintaining a heart and evoking old-fashioned schmaltz.
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Celine's great for the videos with high production values, but she's just a little too schmaltzy for the "grittier" stuff.
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There's some schmaltzier fare as well, but you'd have to be a real killjoy not to enjoy the classics.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it might mean that sneaking the schmaltz is no longer necessary - that we can start embracing sentimentality again without worrying whether we should change our names and move to another town.
Feelin’ Groovy | PopPolitics.com
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The studied schmaltz of this love-themed cabaret, built around the open-hearted and well-crafted songs of star Harry Lewis, is definitely not for the eye-rolling crowd.
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Here, he crafts a vibrant film that will please lovers of honest schmaltz and cause no pain to anyone forced to watch with them.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is just a pity that the disc focuses on the schmaltzier, strings-driven side of the great man's work.
Times, Sunday Times
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He made reference to what he amusedly called The Atkins Schmaltz Diet.
Jay Weston: The Atkins "Schmaltz" Diet: Memories of Jewish Food!
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A smooth and schmaltzy love song from the funk legend.
The Sun
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At the end of the movie we drown in a sea of schmaltz.
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You state that the schmaltz on top of chilled chicken stock has gelatinized.
Latke-Vision: It Sure Beats The Yule Log
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The schmaltzy plot and overcooked acting made it hard to take the film very seriously.
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I should add that the ending is uplifting, but totally schmaltzy.
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Evenings, when we are both home, we usually sit at our wooden table, boiling rose tea in which to dip the day-old bread that complements a warmed, fragrant spread of salted schmaltz, sharing our borrowed newspaper or occasional magazine by gaslight.
Deadly
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We wrote about three songs that were pretty schmaltz, the sort of thing that sounds like what happens when two people get together and want to write a song for someone else.
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First, it is not concerned with contemporary folk music, but a rather dubious brand of acoustic schmaltz that was popular back in the early 1960s.
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If you're bored with Hollywood blockbusters and want a change from feel-good schmaltz, then I'd recommend this twisted family fairy tale.
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And that's just sentimental schmaltz and keeps sort of slowing down the movie, when you want to see this crisp, involving action story.
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Better yet, that was the album's focus, with the swoony schmaltz-experiments Fridmann usually abets providing only the thinnest layer of icing.
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But it's not all schmaltzy backslapping in the band.
The Sun
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If three letters together represent a single sound, they constitute a trigraph, such as tch in catch and sch in schmaltz.
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It is the perfect blend of comedy and drama, carefully treading the fine line between sentimentality and humour so that it never becomes too schmaltzy or too dreary.
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The characters are appealing and wholesome without being schmaltzy.
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GROSS: Bobby Braddock, the word schmaltz is probably not a word that's used a lot in country music.
Bobby Braddock: Spelling Success With Country Songs
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He made reference to what he amusedly called "The Atkins Schmaltz Diet.
Jay Weston: The Atkins "Schmaltz" Diet: Memories of Jewish Food!
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A smooth and schmaltzy love song from the funk legend.
The Sun
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Normally, if you see a bad review on a Christmas movie it's on some real syrupy, schmaltzy one.
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But the fact is that by the last episode they'd resorted to cheap schmaltz.
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There are some redeeming features, but thus far the show needs to ditch the schmaltzy love triangles and sensationalism and focus on character and story.
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This schmaltzy acoustic ballad is made less touching by the shameless exercise in product placement in the video.
The Sun
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This movie could so easily have descended into schmaltz and saccharine yet instead it is by turns dark, comedic, violent, enlightening, frighteningly real and ceaselessly inspiring and surprising.
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While MGM’s stuff reveled in schmaltz, Warners piled on the panache with a distinctly modern sensibility.
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He switched to schmaltzy ballads that reinforced a cartoon notion of Greece.
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Been schmaltzy bitterly it for graphic design firms, archeozoic a headlong abstruse therefore how i was erstwhile dyslogistic to go this anethum and omg it was forficate to be so sniffy.
Rational Review
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A smooth and schmaltzy love song from the funk legend.
The Sun
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And I'm not the only man who folds like a deckchair at the sign of some schmaltz.
The Sun
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My mother used to render a sublime schmaltz, drawing forth globules of fat and the skin thereunto attached from well-bred chickens.
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The first violin, viola, and cello played the Viennesse chamber music section with warmth and stylish schmaltz.
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There are no cheesy anecdotes or schmaltzy tributes to the place in which he is playing.
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Her second album was pure schmaltz.
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But even when these songs have heart-rending subject matter, there's usually something uplifting near the surface, delivered without schmaltz or gushing sentimentality.
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I think I'll spread it out over a couple of days this time, saving the real schmaltzy, sugary thanks to family and friends for Thursday.
