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Don’t be afraid of the solitude that comes from raising your standards. Ebonee Davis

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'Brought out' for me has an implication that he's getting it out to show the class as an object of interest as much as to use it; 'took out' feels more like he just gets it out in order to use it and the interest from others is incidental. If...

Thanks. I used "brought out" and my reader suggested the switch. I don't see the difference TBH. ALTHOUGH... I see now that the preceeding sentence uses "took out" (and so maybe the passage needs tweaking to reduce the redundancy) So, having...

In the context of this sentence, which makes more sense. "Brought out" a camera, or took it out? The narrator is in an art class, and he wants to take a photograph of the sculpture they'll be drawing so that he can draw from the photograph later...

When the famous agent walked into the party, adjusting the angle of his hat and wearing an apricot cravate, James suddenly knew who Carly was writing about in that song about the total eclipse of the sun.

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