schmalz

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Most of the rest was Hollywood schmalz, but who's counting?

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  • "August Rush" a complete and utter schmalz fest of ooooooooooze, which is completely and utterly delightful in its schmalz and ooooooooz. —  Balloon Juice
  • Watch it, you will be glad you took the two hours off from all this silliness to watch schmalz in its purest form. —  Balloon Juice
  • No one gushes quite like Americans, and no one gets sucked in quite like Americans, but no ones disgorges schmalz anything like American TV, which promises a heaveup of truly historic proportions in this case. —  Jules Crittenden
  • Most of the rest was Hollywood schmalz, but who's counting? —  A Lovely Promise
  • One shudders to imagine how Hollywood would have piled on the schmalz. —  indieWIRE News
 

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force-meat ·  satay ·  beforewe ·  quesadilla ·  pot-pie ·  alfredo ·  croquette ·  masala ·  enchilada ·  youve ·  matzoth ·  parmesan
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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