Disneyland

Definitions

1. The archetypical theme park, located in Anaheim, California. Other Disneyland theme parks exist in other cities such as Chessy (Seine-et-Marne, France), Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.
2. A place resembling the Disneyland theme park, often typified by a corporately-designed cheerfulness.
   derogatory, informal, often

Equivalents

Examples

“With its talking statuary, its enormous and elaborate monuments and museums, and its variety of daily shows, it has become⟳ a Disneyland of the dead...”

“Certainly anyone devoted to maintaining Christ as a lacquered benevolent spirit in a Disneyland of happiness is not going to like⟳ this movie.”

“This approach⟳ can lead⟳ to a Disneyland of a garden that busily vies for attention with the view⟳, bringing out the best in neither.”

“But there is another future that these statistics and our nostalgic reaction to them might produce⟳: the research⟳ library as a Disneyland of books, with banker’s lamps and never-cracked spines providing the suggestion of, but not the true interaction with, knowledge old and new.”

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