Can "make something out of ..." mean what I want to mean here?

Question

Life for this sparrow is very hard, but even so, she had a pleasant character. Then an eagle fell in love with her. He explained to her: > I did not adore you because you could **make an adorable sparrow merely > out of discomfort**, distress, and even sorrow. No, you could not. I > love you because you had built such an attractive and agreeable > character, on such an imperfect and precarious basis. （self-made） My purpose is to say that adversities themselves did not make the sparrow cute, but the fact that she became a cute on adverse conditions. I doubt that “make… out of” means the same as “build…on the basis of”, and thus that all my words finally means nothing.

Answer 1

I would use a different turn of phrase. You don't use "make x out of y" reflexively, except when saying literally, "I made something of myself."

Also, as it is, the statement doesn't really make sense: it pretty much reads as "I didn't adore you because you were cute despite having a hard life. No, I adored you because you were cute despite having a hard life."