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Lucas loved the idealistic adventure reels of the ’30s and ’40s where good and evil were divided by a fresh coat of paint.

“Perhaps it's idealistic, but I think anyone that reflects on it would eventually reach the same conclusions. And from there, it is just about having the moral conviction to act.”

It was utopian and idealistic, and the pods were designed with modular furniture built into the walls.

Secularism permeates the nation’s liberal founding documents — the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights — even as the history of Saint-Gaudens’ statue of my pious ancestor demonstrates the idealistic tenacity of religious faith.

He’s smart — perhaps not as bright and sensitive and idealistic as he is in Whitehead’s novel, but making him more of an everyman seems to be on purpose.