And most who listened came away with some bit of advice that sounded positively oracular.

When you put it that way, it sounded positively insane.

Even when he talks about bodily functions, he sounds positively French.

Thus are the Iraqis made to sound positively unsporting for not playing by established rules.

You sound positively confident, and I can't imagine why.

Still, she has come through all this sounding positively sunny.

Next to his two comrades, he sounded positively sober.

Sometimes he just cursed at me for several minutes; this morning, he sounded positively civil.

The old cop sounded positively alight to have heard from him.

In a recent telephone interview, she sounded positively mellow.