How to Use high-concept in a Sentence

high-concept

adjective
  • Wer is the sort of low-budget, high-concept film that’s all too rare these days.
    — EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • People love to scoff at this sort of high-concept culinary stuff.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The trouble with high-concept films, though, is not the concept but the height.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
  • This isn’t the first time Myers has turned to strong footwear to frame a high-concept look.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 6 Aug. 2025
  • So what if this high-concept comedy falls a bit flat in the final stretch?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 July 2023
  • There are more high-concept takes on the beauty and mystery of darkness.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 24 Mar. 2025
  • And yet, the high-concept design still weaves in nods to its coastal surroundings.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2024
  • While we’re told the show is a high-concept comedy, specifics as to its plot are under wraps.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The premise is high-concept, the episodes tightly written and edited.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
  • But the high-concept premise of each usually leads to the death of momentum.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The result is twisty and high-concept and impossible to put down.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The duo said that from the start, there was no intention to create something high-concept.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
  • And what begins as a clever, high-concept joke doesn’t always build beyond a steady stream of chuckles.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Plot details are under wraps but the show is described as a high-concept comedy.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That approach may have gone missing in a decade where most of the few studio comedies that got made went for high-concept laughs.
    — Jake Coyle, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • These aren’t high-concept principles.
    — Tim Britton, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Others, though, began life with a high-concept premise that either wasn’t sustainable, or was simply a bad idea.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Unlike her last couple projects, there’s not a lot of high-concept goofiness, nor the dreamy singing that made her stories seem like warped flashbacks.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 24 June 2026
  • Thorne brings depth and fire to the role, grounding the high-concept world of armor and villains in real emotion and identity.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Serenity is a high-concept fiasco, but what if Hathaway eats?
    — Chris Feil, Vulture, 1 May 2026
  • Here, high-concept plot elements that might otherwise be lurid emerge as part of the film's own, singular vision.
    — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • All the high-concept Zemeckis characters are here.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But her digital sleuthing leads to more questions than answers in this captivating high-concept thriller.
    — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In January, the streamer revealed there would be no third season for the high-concept series.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2025
  • That push-and-pull is central to the show, which balances absurd, high-concept comedy with sharp emotional stakes.
    — Sarah Rodman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Apr. 2026
  • We are also taught to idolize writers who know how to seek out the high-concept and sticky truths that will change the trajectory of everything.
    — Rhea Wessel, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The high-concept, broadly appealing movie with no franchise potential has long been an endangered species.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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 Phoenician Scheme is the director’s latest film to let modern life seep into his high-concept worlds.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 June 2025

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