And as not everyone can be a mould-breaker there are still a lot of traditional comedy shows on television.'

Will watch Tommy again tonight and raise a glass to the memory of a true English mould-breaker.

On a more positive note, he might help the Republican challenger to pose as a mould-breaker in New York politics.

Wanless, the meritocrat whose late father was a storeman in a cement works on Tyneside, is something of a mould-breaker.

No mould-breaker he.

Total Film welcomed the return of Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson to "[inject] the film with much-needed laughs" and felt that Johnson fit into the established cast with ease, though it believed the film itself was "no mould-breaker."

Photograph: Philippe Levy-Stab/Corbis Like his saxophone contemporaries John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, he was a fearless mould-breaker and explorer of new forms who was nonetheless profoundly influenced by that most fundamental of black American musical forms, the blues.

The frustration with him was that the transformative candidate became the muddle-through President ... with Ed the worry is that even while he remains the candidate he can't decide if he wants to be a mould-breaker (as briefly I'd argue in NotW, and his two conference speeches) or another muddle-through merchant

Above all, he was the mold-breaker within tradition.

He was not a mold-breaker but neither was he entirely an imitator.

With most campaigns almost exclusively using 30-second spots, Mr. Bradley's commercial amounts to a video mold-breaker.

Although not the first doll Web site, iDolls is a mold-breaker, using technology to overturn conventional marketing notions in the industry.

Miss Graham has often been compared with Freud, Stravinsky, James Joyce and Picasso as a "supreme mold-breaker" of the 20th century who has changed the way people see and think and provided a codified alternative to the idiom of centuries-old classical ballet.