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
• Wer is the sort of low-budget, high-concept film that’s all too rare these days.
  — EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
• 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
• There are more high-concept takes on the beauty and mystery of darkness.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 24 Mar. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In January, the streamer revealed there would be no third season for the high-concept series.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2025
• The track also represents the simplicity and clarity that may have been out of place among Pink Floyd’s high-concept works at the time.
  — Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 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
• 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
• 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
• The master of high-concept tech has gained attention from not just Silicon Valley – but some of the biggest names in sports and Hollywood.
  — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Marvel's high-concept WandaVision, for instance, spoofed sitcoms through the ages.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
• 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 Hunting Party, a high-concept procedural, and Brilliant Minds, a medical drama, wound up demonstrating that potential.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 12 May 2025