schmalzy
- s effusively or insincerely emotional
- HUNGARY Puppet Play Premier Janos Kadar went off to Moscow so that his puppet regime could be rehearsed in a new Hungarian dance routine: soft lights to hide the scars, schmalzy .
- Rudolf Friml, 92, prolific composer king of schmalzy, popular light opera in the 1920s (The Vagabond King, Rose-Marie, The Three Musketeers); in Hollywood.
- The picture demanded music appropriate to post-World War II Vienna, but Director Reed had made up his mind to avoid schmalzy, heavily orchestrated waltzes.