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. |
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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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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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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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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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But the fact is that by the last episode they'd resorted to cheap schmaltz. |
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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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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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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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Whether or not you find it heavenly, though, depends on your appetite for overly orchestrated synthesized schmaltz. |
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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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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 three letters together represent a single sound, they constitute a trigraph, such as tch in catch and sch in schmaltz. |
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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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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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I barely get over one season of schmaltz, before I'm faced with another. |
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I just get a little angry that Hanukkah doesn't have all that schmaltz. |
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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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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. |
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For all his strained seriousness, corn and schmaltz are Mr Spielberg's besetting weakness. |
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Most would probably like to be the sort of person who values sobriety and substance over style and schmaltz. |
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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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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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State media still indulges in horrific invective against the South Korean president, Lee Myung-bak, suggesting that, despite its discovery of American schmaltz, the regime's attitude remains dangerously paranoid. |
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By Murphy's Law after he did the family schmaltz, the funny stuff, the attempts at hitting Labour's G-spot, the live broadcast feed broke down for 10 minutes. |
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Schmaltz redeems the matzo ball from being just another dumpling. |
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