He's emphatically monosyllabic. I said sixteen nice things to him while I was waiting for Pete to wake up Saunders; and he answered in words of one syllable; one word, of one syllable. I'm beginning to feel that I've simply got to know that young man. There are deeps there which I am wild to explore. I never met any male human in the least like him. Did you? So absolutely--ah--inscrutable, let us say."
"That's just because he's part Indian," Evadna declared, with the positiveness of youth and inexperience. "It isn't inscrutability, but stupidity.英文原著 · 《Good Indian》
"The satchel ain't in the tree," growled Caven, but his tone lacked positiveness.英文原著 · 《Joe The Hotel Boy》
"Of course she is," said Phyllis, with a positiveness that was designed to convince herself that she believed her own statement.英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
If any inquiry thus carefully conducted should fail at last of discovering the truth, it may answer an end perhaps as useful, in discovering to us the weakness of our own understanding. If it does not make us knowing, it may make us modest. If it does not preserve us from error, it may at least from the spirit of error; and may make us cautious of pronouncing with positiveness or with haste, when so much labour may end in so much uncertainty.英文原著 · 《Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke》
The anonymity of the articles soon took on interest from the positiveness of the opinions discussed; but so thoroughly had Colonel Roosevelt covered his tracks that, although he wrote in his usual style, in not a single instance was his name connected with the department. Lyman Abbott was the favorite "guess" at first; then after various other public men had been suggested, the newspapers finally decided upon former President Eliot of Harvard University as the writer.英文原著 · 《The Americanization of Edward Bok》
She shook her head with a quaint, fascinating expression of positiveness. ``Now, my friend,'' said she, ``drop that fancy. It isn't sensible. And it threatens to become silly.'' Her smile suddenly expanded into a laugh. ``The idea of you and me married--of ME married to YOU! I'd drive you crazy. No, I shouldn't stay long enough for that. I'd be of on the wings of the wind to the other end of the earth as soon as you tried to put a halter on me.''英文原著 · 《The Conflict》