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  • noun (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music

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Examples

  • 3: 59 PM oy vey, the shmaltz is clogging my engines ....

    Your Right Hand Thief 2007

  • It assigned high school students Chekist shmaltz to read in place of history, with rosy portraits of Stalin and anti-Western distortions.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • It assigned high school students Chekist shmaltz to read in place of history, with rosy portraits of Stalin and anti-Western distortions.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • It assigned high school students Chekist shmaltz to read in place of history, with rosy portraits of Stalin and anti-Western distortions.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • To make them even richer, instead of 2 tbsp of oil use 2 tbsp of shmaltz, rendered chicken fat.

    Matzo Ball Soup 2009

  • It assigned high school students Chekist shmaltz to read in place of history, with rosy portraits of Stalin and anti-Western distortions.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Never use “shmaltz” so that you can serve it with dairy or meat.

    Latke-Vision: It Sure Beats The Yule Log 2008

  • The events were a strange U.S. hybrid that combined Nurembergian expressions of power, blind allegiance to a wartime leader, and TNN shmaltz.

    Alexander Zaitchik: Past is Prologue: Glenn Beck's "Rally for America" Redux 2010

  • April 6th, 2009 5: 31pm stanley just an afterthought, wouldnt it be fun to put carl in a jar with onion skins until he got a tan and cover the laird in shmaltz so that he could grease up and down the walls of Glasgow university like a lump of lard, but tasting so much better. stanley Jerusalem

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • My grandmother used to render shmaltz to great effect, and now because of George Bush's way of rendering, I no longer enjoy matzoh ball soup.

    Aaron Belkin: Long Night's Journey into Obama 2009

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