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How to use schmaltz in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word schmaltz? Here are some examples.

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He has always been a bit of a cheeseball and, since he's completely aware of it, he plays the schmaltz for all its worth.
Unfortunately it succumbs to its meaner instincts in the second half, indulging in romantic schmaltz with the occasional inspired comic riff.
The fraternal filmmaking team manages to make crass, stupid, lurid jokes, while also maintaining a heart and evoking old-fashioned schmaltz.
A grand-daughter helping her slightly dotty grand-dad tie his tie is the sort of schmaltz that sucks me in.
My mother used to render a sublime schmaltz, drawing forth globules of fat and the skin thereunto attached from well-bred chickens.
But the fact is that by the last episode they'd resorted to cheap schmaltz.
The two lead actors acquit themselves admirably in their roles, rescuing the film from descending into schmaltz.
And that's just sentimental schmaltz and keeps sort of slowing down the movie, when you want to see this crisp, involving action story.
If you're bored with Hollywood blockbusters and want a change from feel-good schmaltz, then I'd recommend this twisted family fairy tale.
Whether or not you find it heavenly, though, depends on your appetite for overly orchestrated synthesized schmaltz.
The first violin, viola, and cello played the Viennesse chamber music section with warmth and stylish schmaltz.
It can make you laugh without anyone falling over, and it can make you cry without resorting to laid-on-with-a-trowel schmaltz.
If three letters together represent a single sound, they constitute a trigraph, such as tch in catch and sch in schmaltz.
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.
There's no denying how frustrating staid, riskless costume dramas can be, where substance is replaced with big budgets, fancy costumes and schmaltz.
I barely get over one season of schmaltz, before I'm faced with another.
I just get a little angry that Hanukkah doesn't have all that schmaltz.
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.
There's none of the schmaltz of his years on the posh concert hall circuit – just raw energy and emotion as he works the crowd.
For all his strained seriousness, corn and schmaltz are Mr Spielberg's besetting weakness.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And again the fortune of schmaltz was swept away and again he was kicked.
Somehow or other the story of schmaltz and the shirt had made him sad.
Schmaltz and Lachaumareys gave orders to take the route for Senegal.
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