Hints and tips:
...A foggy-voiced effort at gospel music (“Go Tell It on the Mountain”), a cut-price take on orchestral glitz (“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”), some tinselly schmaltz (“When a Child Is Born”)....
...Their Biden may stray too readily into schmaltz. But his empathy for people is real. In this pandemic-blighted election year, that quality could count for a lot....
...With a preposterously overwrought sweep of synthesisers and orchestral arrangements, pop-operatic quartet Il Divo waft into view, turning Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” from moody Americana into dark-suited...
...Mystic River treated child-napping with the kind of totemistic hysteria that inspired Chris Morris’s famous satire in TV’s Brass Eye ....
...I can joke about it now – I tell David it’s the crap first album, but people love schmaltz, and there’s nothing wrong with schmaltz within reason. Schmaltz can be great. Look at Lionel Richie....
...Jonathan Straight, the ponytailed chief executive of water butt maker Straight, noted that this was the year’s triumphant look when he and Chris Rea, the similarly coiffed managing director of AES Engineering...
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