"The east-west factor does play a role, and I have been forced to act against certain clichés," he said.

In baseball, as in other parts of society, certain cliches and stereotypes cling.

It also turns out that, while musical idioms sometimes have a hard time crossing the barriers of language and culture, certain narrative clichés are universal.

He fell into certain antisemitic cliches that were rampant in Europe and the US at the time.

The scene is intimate, yet the figure is, according to one author, "self-absorbed, passive, alienated-undoubtedly contribut[ing] to the persistence of certain homophobic clichés."

Michael Bublé: Christmas (143/Reprise) There's a certain cliché that we've all heard: niceness counts!

Old ladies carried handkerchiefs long after tissues were available and observed certain stylistic cliches.

But if he had an engrossing screenplay and avoided certain clichés, the film would have been a trademark in the director's career".

Granted, certain cliches were often repeated - scantily clad women, heroic men, evil villains, horrific monsters - but the art was totally convincing.