He faced his accusers with a clear eye and a frigid amiability; he listened to his sentence with a calm contempt; he laughed complacently at the sorry interludes of judicial wit; and he faced the last music with a bravery and a cynicism which bore the stamp of true greatness.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
He held his throat and looked imploringly towards the bottle. Trent shook his head stonily. There was something pitiful in the man's talk, in that odd mixture of bitter cynicism and passionate earnestness, but there was also something fascinating. As regards the brandy, however, Trent was adamant. "Not a drop," he declared. "What a fool you are to want it, Monty! You're a wreck already. You want to pull through, don't you?英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
"Krag treats me like a child," he remarked presently. "And perhaps I really am a child.... My cynicism must seem most amusing to Krag. But why does he leave me to find out all this by myself - for I don't include you, Nightspore.... But what time will Krag be here?"
"Not before dark, I expect," his friend replied.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
"This is a beautiful world, isn't it?" said he, with more tenderness than cynicism this time.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Consider, for instance, Synge's masterpiece, "The Playboy of the Western World!" There is flower of author! What is it for mankind at large? An attack on the Irish character! A pretty piece of writing! An amusing farce! Enigmatic cynicism leading nowhere! A puzzling fellow wrote it! Mankind at large has little patience with puzzling fellows.英文原著 · 《Concerning Letters》