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high-concept

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high-con·cept (hknspt)
adj.
Designed to appeal to a mass audience, as by incorporating popular, glamorous features: a high-concept screenplay.


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Rogen's notions lean toward the high-concept, while Apatow likes ``reality-based, emotional things.
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