She drew me out, as they might say in a novel.
He was keen to draw me out, and find out what I thought.
Anyway, he sounded quite interested in my flow of conversation and courteously drew me out when I hesitated.
"It was really his enthusiasm that drew me out to occasionally show the photographs," she said.
I was a shy kid but Miss Skinner recognised a small talent and drew me out.
In her beautiful, light-filled flat, the skillful actress drew me out about myself while studying who I might be — and what I've become.
Lippmann himself puts it this way: "Friendly came to lunch with me in Washington and began to draw me out about appearing on a filmed program.
She wished to draw me out, of course, within the limits of her own knowledge, within the limits of what she herself had been trained to do, and to some extent she succeeded.
Ms. Leibfried seemed to notice my interest in both reading and writing, and she took the time to draw me out; she even offered reading suggestions, like one of her favorite novels, "The Bell Jar".
I'd love to know what I raved that night to the night, what those innocent dithyrambs were, or to feel what so ecstatically drew me out of myself and beyond... Nothing is there, though, only the solemn piazza beneath me, the riot of dim, tiled roofs and impassable alleys, my desolate bed behind me, and my voice, hoarse, and the sweet, alien air against me like a kiss.
