| 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. |
| If three letters together represent a single sound, they constitute a trigraph, such as tch in catch and sch in schmaltz. |
| Whether or not you find it heavenly, though, depends on your appetite for overly orchestrated synthesized 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. |
| And that's just sentimental schmaltz and keeps sort of slowing down the movie, when you want to see this crisp, involving action story. |
