Words similar to high-concept

Example sentences for: high-concept

How can you use “high-concept” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Ivan played Pygmalion to Arnold's Galatea in a series of high-concept comedies: Twins, Kindergarden Cop, and Junior . For a post-coital shot in Twins, Schwarzenegger let Reitman set his every facial muscle for maximum comedic effect.
Critics dismiss the fourth installment in the Batman series as nonsensical kitsch, a "wild, campy costume party" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Director Joel Schumacher ( A Time to Kill ), a former window dresser, leans heavily on high-concept get-ups (villainess Uma Thurman sports a suit made from 450 Santa Claus wigs) in the apparent hope of deflecting attention from a script that "has the eerie feeling of having no beginning, no middle and no end" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Still, his overwrought attempts to make the film fun--fast editing, crashingly loud sound effects--end up making it "a punishing ordeal" (Alex Ross, Slate).
It's a high-concept package, a blend of memoir (Wolf recalls learning about sex as a child growing up in San Francisco's racy hippie district, Haight-Ashbury) and reporting (she gets childhood friends to cough up their key moments).
Their collaboration was wildly successful, but would prove to be the last stand for the director-driven, high-concept comedy.
Eddie Murphy had been trapped in a series of stultifying high-concept comedies.