schmaltz

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I cried when I read it-the phrase stuck with me, and eventually, I found myself on the phone with Wendy Schmaltz, the agent for the Fitzgerald estate, asking if I could make the movie.
讀到這裡的時候我失聲哭了出來，腦海裡始終縈繞著這幾句話，後來我就打電話給菲氏不動産琯理機(jī)搆的代理人溫迪·舒瑪玆，我想把這個短篇小說改編成爲(wèi)電影。

Progress marches ever onward with 62 percent of couples planning to also spread the schmaltz via text message or social media, according to a survey conducted by American Express.
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He preferred quotidian debris—tram tickets, bureaucratic forms, dishevelled bird feathers, all sorts of cultural kitsch and schmaltz—which he transfigured with a subtle and daring use of colour into rhythmic, vibrant works of art that speak movingly of their time, yet transcend it.
ECONOMIST: Kurt Schwitters

artistic works, such as music or writing, that are intended to cause strong sad or romantic feelings but have no real artistic value

If you describe a song, movie, or book as schmaltz, you do not like it because it is too sentimental.