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What is schmaltz?

What is schmaltz? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) Liquid chicken fat.
  2. (uncountable) Excessively sentimental art or music.
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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.
Unfortunately it succumbs to its meaner instincts in the second half, indulging in romantic schmaltz with the occasional inspired comic riff.
A grand-daughter helping her slightly dotty grand-dad tie his tie is the sort of schmaltz that sucks me in.
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.
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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