brave new world

Definitions

1. A better, often utopian (future) world.
2. A terrible, often oppressive or dystopian world.

Equivalents

Examples

“O wonder⟳! / How many goodly creatures are there heere? / How beauteous mankinde is? O braue new world / That has ſuch people in't.”

“Will digital broadcasting, 'mega-channel-land', change⟳ everything or nothing? Will it be a brave new world, or simply more of the same?”

“In this brave new world, the IMF and other Western financial institutions dictated radical free trade⟳ "shock⟳ treatment" to both developing nations and the former USSR ...”

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