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Doerr, meanwhile, creates a tender kind of suspense, alive and surprising and hopeful without careening into schmaltz.

The horror factor, however, takes a back seat when Ally and Jay share comically gratuitous moments of rom-com schmaltz.

Debates about “Love Actually” are mainly about the quality of its schmaltz.

Jimmy Cagney’s old schmaltz vehicle "Yankee Doodle Dandy" looks restrained by comparison.

In what I hope is meant to suggest the falseness of these stories, Brown pounds the pastiche in the songs so hard it borders on minstrelsy: hip-hop for the fixer; fiddle schmaltz for the pilgrims.