If three letters together represent a single sound, they constitute a trigraph, such as tch in catch and sch in schmaltz. |
The fraternal filmmaking team manages to make crass, stupid, lurid jokes, while also maintaining a heart and evoking old-fashioned schmaltz. |
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. |
But the fact is that by the last episode they'd resorted to cheap schmaltz. |
A grand-daughter helping her slightly dotty grand-dad tie his tie is the sort of schmaltz that sucks me in. |