How to Use high-concept in a Sentence

high-concept

adjective
Definition of high-conceptnext
  • The trouble with high-concept films, though, is not the concept but the height.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The premise is high-concept, the episodes tightly written and edited.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
  • And yet, the high-concept design still weaves in nods to its coastal surroundings.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2024
  • So what if this high-concept comedy falls a bit flat in the final stretch?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 July 2023
  • The duo said that from the start, there was no intention to create something high-concept.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The result is twisty and high-concept and impossible to put down.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The new show is helmed by the former showrunners of Game of Thrones and surprise surprise, this high-concept drama is in fact very good.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The Davies brothers would spend the next couple decades changing labels and the lineup of the band, while evolving their sound with more high-concept albums.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Details are being kept locked in a vault but the project as being touted as a high-concept globally set caper flick a la Ocean’s Eleven.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Retribution is the kind of high-concept thriller that, on paper, must have sounded like a cross between a straight-down-the-middle gig and an easy payday.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a threadbare high-concept story given the high-thread-count treatment — a lovely piece of luxury pulp.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But the museum’s summer design series served up a kind of low-cost, high-concept silliness that was in short supply in the city even before the layered crises of the last few years.
    — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
  • Its last foray into movie musicals was the ultra-glossy and high-concept The Greatest Showman.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Second on the list is I Suck, a high-concept YA romance about a man who goes on an online date with a woman who is hiding a dangerous secret.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 26 July 2024
  • Here, high-concept plot elements that might otherwise be lurid emerge as part of the film’s own, singular vision.
    — Dennis Perkins and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 5 July 2024
  • Amazon Prime Video was enthusiastic about the whole package and the prospect of working with Ruben on this high-concept Israeli format.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 4 Jan. 2024
  • That’s a heavy load to bear for an amusing, high-concept riff on the family sitcom set in an extremely loose rendition of ancient Greece.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 24 Sep. 2023
  • That’s the contrived premise of J.J. Perry’s action-comedy, which even manages to throw some romance into its high-concept mix.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Each of Kinetic’s relationship shows has a high-concept scheme that becomes a pressure test for the idea of commitment.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 4 June 2024
  • While a straight dude in his 40s might not have seemed an obvious match for the material, Garner and Greer credit him with bringing a sense of pathos to a high-concept comedy.
    — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The singer, known for performance-art outfits and high-concept stage productions, sang in a black T-shirt, ripped jeans and minimalist makeup.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But her digital sleuthing leads to more questions than answers in this captivating high-concept thriller.
    — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The legendary animation studio has remained at the top of its game for years because of how its films use their big high-concept ideas to explore fundamental truths.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 14 June 2024
  • But sentimentality suits Flanagan, whose florid writing style is well matched by the high-concept ideas explored here.
    — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Bailey and Bird become friends, not because of any magical overlap in temperament, but because that’s the film’s high-concept premise.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2024
  • The team will also be selling high-concept Scott Adkins actioner Take Cover, which wrapped in early summer this year, and will be presenting a first look at the festival.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Martin jumped so seamlessly and deftly between bizarre, high-concept joke structures and then playing an alluring melody that turned into a joke.
    — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Mad Men too is a high-concept piece of narrative art for television about people trying to make high-concept pieces of narrative art for television.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Especially when the movie is basically a high-concept rehash of 2022’s Bodies Bodies Bodies, with less of the wicked satirical zing.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Like so many streaming hits, the genre exercise resonated because its high-concept premise told a compelling story unto itself.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2024

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