The "impurities" that need to be refined out include factious demands, whether coming from a minority or even a majority, that he believed are always latent in human beings.
If there is anything that defines the presidential campaigns this year, it is a general inattention to problems associated with the human proclivity to give in to factious impulses.
But, in her dogged way, she has progressed from having a factious and low-functioning campaign in 2008 to having a factious and high-functioning one in 2016.
For the many years it covers, the film maintains a tight focus on the chef as intelligent, factious, and evolving personality, the self he puts on stage.