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schmaltz

[ US /ˈʃmɑɫts/ ]
[ UK /ʃmˈælts/ ]
NOUN
  1. (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music

How To Use schmaltz In A Sentence

  • While MGM’s stuff reveled in schmaltz, Warners piled on the panache with a distinctly modern sensibility. 2008 August : Scrubbles.net
  • But it's not all schmaltzy backslapping in the band. The Sun
  • Better yet, that was the album's focus, with the swoony schmaltz-experiments Fridmann usually abets providing only the thinnest layer of icing.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • I should add that the ending is uplifting, but totally schmaltzy.
  • The schmaltzy plot and overcooked acting made it hard to take the film very seriously.
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