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Rapier Insight and Schmaltzy Pablum were my parents.
"I wonder if historians will see the era that started in the mid-'90s as The Long Freakout." Ann Althouse 2006
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MCCAIN: Schmaltzy as it sounds, it was love at first sight, and so we started dating.
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Schmaltzy power ballads don't suit him, and there's too many here
CNN.com 2011
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Schmaltzy power ballads don't suit him, and there's too many here
CNN.com 2011
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Schmaltzy mood music aside, China and India last week did some serious business.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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From Nora to Schmaltzy, piano-playing cats seem to be everywhere.
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From Nora to Schmaltzy, piano-playing cats seem to be everywhere.
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The Shawshank Redemption: a Schmaltzy movie that is just good.
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The Shawshank Redemption: a Schmaltzy movie that is just good.
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Well I laughed all the way home Schmaltzy music , squeaky kids voices Rhodri Morgan cooing over them like big bird - we are so happy for the clean water beaches and Cardiff Bay the youngsters trilled - cue Rhodri - yes labour in Wales cares about the environment I wonder if Glas Cymru knows it was Rhodri that cleaned up the beaches It got worse I am not sure if you can access the broadcast but if you can you just have to listen to it I think it was a plant by one of the other parties - it cannot be for real
Who did that radio PPB Valleys Mam 2007
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World English Dictionary
schmaltzy (ʃmæltsɪ, ʃmɔːltsɪ)
— adj , -ier , -iest
excessively sentimental
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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September 6, 2013