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Example sentences for: schmaltzy

How can you use “schmaltzy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Simon tries to write serious drama, but critics find him as schmaltzy as ever.
Others say the film's schmaltzy dialogue and contrived plot have the "staying power of cotton candy" (Merkin, The New Yorker ). (The studio plugs the film.)
With a schmaltzy violin score in the background, Schlesinger called on Beatty to "keep up the debate and save our party's soul."
Some critics praise the film for featuring a hard-working family instead of Hollywood's usual black "pimps and junkies" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Others say it just replaces a negative stereotype with a schmaltzy one: "[I]t pushes emotional buttons with all the subtlety of a poke in the baby-back ribs" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Photos and the like are available here.)
And he could be as sentimental and schmaltzy as a Neil Simon play.