The gleaming American Dream mall is a true feat of engineering, with its sparkling white marble floors, colorful interior, record-breaking amenities and shops.

But the real differentiator is the unique storytelling experience that is woven into the variety of thrilling rides, gleaming complex of shops and restaurants as well as interactive shows and attractions, said Joe Schott, president and general manager of Shanghai Disney Resort.

Suited-booted bank executives and their ilk, who may be used to visiting gleaming metal-concrete-glass-wood towers, may be ill at home here.

Today, Pudong is packed with gleaming skyscrapers and is also home to a cluster of state-of-the-art industries.

Now, gleaming skyscrapers shed light on the rivers day and night.

Imagine, they said, an old banger morphing into a glamorous, irresistible, state-of-the-art mean machine, and it would help you to visualize plain-Jane filling stations transforming into shiny, gleaming modern metal-and-glass structures.

After the last gleaming red Holden VF Commodore, a six-cylinder rear-wheel drive sedan, left the plant in the Adelaide suburb of Elizabeth that had grown over decades to provide its workforce, 955 factory workers clocked of for the last time.

Upon opening the door, they will likely see a gleaming, android-like advanced service robot, which must have reached the room using the elevator independently.