But for the most part it steers away from the worst clichés of that tear-drenched genre.

Come on, that's the oldest and worst cliche in the books.

The underdog fighting the good fight against oppressive power structures is by now one of the worst cliches of modern advertising and popular culture.

Think of all the worst clichés and then exaggerate them tenfold.

The city that had taught her she was not immune to the temptations of a bad cliche.

And that's the worst cliché of all time, but it's evident today.

Sure, the novel strings together "many of the worst cliches in American politics."

"It's a bad cliche and a pun, but in this case it's true."

"But if in those two minutes you can hear every bad cliche you've ever heard, it's not likely there's going to be some dramatic turnaround."

There are mass media broadcasts, false images and bad clichés about the everyday life of those countries.