How to Use high-concept in a Sentence

high-concept

adjective

• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• The reteaming of Handmaid’s Tale co-stars Moss and Minghella (here as director) is an enticing pitch for international buyers on the lookout for a high-concept thriller with some star allure.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2023
• The result is a subtle set of works that tells a loose story about an otherworldly being — call it Johnny — who shape-shifts across time and space like a villain in a high-concept comic-book multiverse, chasing its equally wily prey.
  — Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Ethridge, whose work can be found in the world’s most prestigious collections, is a fitting choice for the high-concept campaign—proof that Clemens and his creative director, Babak Radboy, have always understood the fine art of advertising.
  — Lynette Nylander, Essence, 24 Oct. 2023
• The film projects will focus on developing and producing high-concept stories in comedy, drama and sci-fi, with budgets ranging from $5 million to $30 million.
  — Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024
• And yet what all his films have in common is a totally absurdist, idiosyncratic approach that mixes high-concept plots with a tone best described as deadpan surrealism.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023
• In front of a camera, Keaton has always been easy to follow into whatever high-concept or realistic milieu needs his steady, authentic charisma.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Food and beverage are a highlight — especially the high-concept bar Bad Harriet, where the options include a $145 progressive cocktail tasting menu.
  — Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
• But all this high-concept hi-larity has an innocuously familiar, haven’t-we-been-watching-this-since-the-’80s? quality.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
• For one thing, both places were crawling with cats, turning a high-concept livestream from Marvel Entertainment into a chaotic scene of tumbling, jumping, eating, purring felines that just might have been extraterrestrials in disguise (a.k.a.
  — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• Juggling the various tones of this high-concept romantic comedy could've resulted in disaster, but the film manages to nimbly toe the line of bittersweet romance and absurdity.
  — Will Harris, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2023
• But what actually transpires is far more engaging, in the vein of Asghar Farhadi, wherein a tight, high-concept moral core unravels into strands of widening, deepening social consequence.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 29 May 2023
• The high-concept collection has 16 themes that cover the topics of transformation and interconnectedness, and celebrate various gemstones and their origins.
  — Carol Besler, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024