Definitions
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- noun (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music
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Examples
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3: 59 PM oy vey, the shmaltz is clogging my engines ....
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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
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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
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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
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To make them even richer, instead of 2 tbsp of oil use 2 tbsp of shmaltz, rendered chicken fat.
Matzo Ball Soup 2009
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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
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Never use “shmaltz” so that you can serve it with dairy or meat.
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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
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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
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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.
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