| 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. |
| The fraternal filmmaking team manages to make crass, stupid, lurid jokes, while also maintaining a heart and evoking old-fashioned schmaltz. |
| 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. |
| My mother used to render a sublime schmaltz, drawing forth globules of fat and the skin thereunto attached from well-bred chickens. |
