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I could hurl plenty of appreciative adjectives and cliches at Rudyard Kipling's Kim.
Accusations about the big brother state, the nanny state and the jobsworth, form-filling, tick-box, health-and-safety culture gone mad undoubtedly became overdone cliches at times.
There are still frustrating cliches at play (work is an infrequent hobby yet expensive apartments are easily obtained) and a few too many moments of cloying sentimentality, but the film gets a surprising number of things right.
Just about every conversation I had in Wolverhampton reflected aspects of the riots that have become cliches at speed: this one pointed up the national sense that, at least initially, police merely stood and observed.
Just don't use Merriam Webster as your go-to expert; avoid cliches at all costs.
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