How to Use unfilmable in a Sentence

unfilmable

adjective
  • The intricacies of their discourse and society might be unfilmable, or at least, not many have tried to represent it in full.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The show is remarkably faithful and visually luxurious, putting a novel once thought unfilmable on the screen in grand style.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The historical epic, long considered unfilmable because of its scale and cost, will be released in two 100-minute parts.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The book, sweeping in its scope, had been labeled unfilmable, but supported by García Márquez’s family, Netflix brought it to the screen.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 20 May 2026
  • Strong acting turns by Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin help director Brian Duffield make a meal of a seemingly unfilmable novel about a sour young man swallowed by a whale.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

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