The word "schmaltzy" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe something as overly sentimental. For example, you could say, "I thought the romantic comedy was a bit schmaltzy."
Interpretations of what this actually means will vary, but it is certainly more maudlin – schmaltzy even – than it is funny.
Behind the dancing girls and schmaltzy lyrics that usually characterise pop songs, these men act as the all-oppressing eye of the industry: telling female singers that weight loss and sexual objectification are the only feasible routes to stardom; stripping down women in music videos to their underwear while leaving their male counterparts untouched.
Even the album's best song, "You're Missing", a catalogue of absences (a coffee cup on the counter, a newspaper on the doorstep) is a little schmaltzy.
Mr Duffy leaves that question, like so much else, in schmaltzy soft focus.
Warner Music Group has signed JYJ, a Korean boy band, and is exporting its schmaltzy pop to the rest of Asia.As music firms move resources from one country to another, domestic markets are being reshaped.
"I'll walk myself back to the woman my mother thought I was," proclaims Ms Witherspoon in a rather schmaltzy moment.But this comment is actually the exception, not the rule.
"Football belongs to everyone," it says, in a schmaltzy advertisement ahead of the World Cup.
Predic painted conventional portraits, rather chilly nudes and schmaltzy scenes of children asleep on graves.
Bill Clinton and Tony Blair Reagan and Margaret Thatcherr; before them, Eisenhower and Macmillan, and JFK and Wilson: the two countries' political cycles have often overlapped, and like-minded leaders (albeit less schmaltzy in Britain) have coincided.
"I hear there's a guy called Mitt Romney who wants to know whether we're ready," he said, playing out a scene from "Love Actually", a schmaltzy film in which a British prime minister says boo to an American president.
His music "a little schmaltzy"?
