"God in the movies is someone who supports and sustains American optimism."

It is a big, happy bubble of postwar American optimism.

The early stages of the Iraq war may have been a watershed in American optimism.

To some extent, American optimism is an accident of timing.

"A general American optimism comes out in polls," he said.

And this may well have symbolized the return of American optimism, which some commentators would argue is a needed quality in these troubled times.

Obama's re-election is a "new energy and a revival of the characteristic American optimism.

American optimism, on the other hand, he had never absorbed.

But it is also partly rooted in basic American optimism.

But as a rule, diners were always symbols of American optimism.