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Sailsofoblivion Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
"Brought to Life"
Does anyone think there's also a better way of saying "brought to life" here. I was just looking at a few other personal essays on the subject, and it tends to be the most overused image with regards to music - i.e. "breathe life into" etc, so I'd ideally like to avoid using the word life...
"There was something magical, I thought, in the way that instruments could be brought to life, and used as tools to create music."
"There was something magical, I thought, in the way that instruments could be brought to life, and used as tools to create music."
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"There was something magical, I thought, in the way that instruments could seem to be living beings, and used as tools to create music."
"There was something magical, I thought, in the way that instruments could act as living beings, and used as tools to create music."
"There was something magical, I thought, in the way that instruments could be animated, and
"There was something magical, I thought, in the way that instruments could act as living beings, and used as tools to create music."
"There was something magical, I thought, in the way that instruments could be animated, and
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Thank you SO much. This is exactly what I needed. I'm leaning towards using "could be animated", however, do you think this would work well with this sentence in the following paragraph? Not sure if the repetition looks lazy...
"There was something magical, I thought, in the way that instruments could be animated, and used as tools to create music."
"My petite size, however, was
"There was something magical, I thought, in the way that instruments could be animated, and used as tools to create music."
"My petite size, however, was
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If you are going to personify instruments by speaking of them being brought to life, it is not good to then speak of them as 'tools' because tools are inanimate.
Compare this.
"There was something magical, I thought, in the way that instruments could be brought to life to create/compos
Compare this.
"There was something magical, I thought, in the way that instruments could be brought to life to create/compos
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