Influenced more by the edginess of independent feature films, they say that their work is marginalized because it does not fit the conventional mold.

"The Bassarids," despite its revolutionary message of sexual liberation, was a capstone on the monument of this successful career in the conventional mold.

His characters do not conform to conventional molds.

Accepting for women the romantic ideals of the day, the heroines of the novel are cast in the conventional mold of helplessness and decorum.

Tractors and babushkas and Stalin are accounted for, but very few of the many pictures fit the conventional mold.

When Mr. Urso tames his enthusiasm and streamlines it into a more conventional mold, the results are rewarding.

All along, the Beltway Democrats have done their best to stop Jerry Brown or, failing that, to force him into the conventional lackey-like mold.

Intelligence came in the oddest packages and didn't always fit the conventional molds.

He was attracted to mavericks and buccaneers, flamboyant characters and guerrilla warriors who broke all conventional molds.