schmaltziness

Viewers who give in to the film's schmaltziness will appreciate "A Man Called Otto," which even includes a joke at the irony of Otto's hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a genetic enlargement of the heart.

There are some high points, a few misses, and a little bit of the requisite schmaltziness.

It had the bionic schmaltziness of a Jackson album, but it didn’t seem to possess the right blend of the man’s fury and guilelessness.

Along with the inevitable schmaltziness—of a sports-entertainment behemoth that fancies itself besieged—this was a strong reassertion of First Amendment rights.

Still, her way of enthusing was to enforce bracing contrasts and avoid at all costs any hint of Mahlerian schmaltziness.