'salient themes' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a list of topics or themes that are important to a particular subject. For example, "The novel highlights several salient themes, such as friendship and the power of self-determination."
Still, there is a raffish vigor that makes the movie watchable despite all-over-the-map storytelling and a fuzzy, superficial grasp of the salient themes.
Your discussion might touch on the juxtaposition of luxury and tragedy, the partnership between hubris and disaster, passengers' poise in the face of terror, or other salient themes.
"The structure, and even the salient themes of a thing often don't reveal themselves for me, till you've thrashed for quite some time," he wrote a few days later.
In the public arena — exemplified by the obsessions evident in his private letters — he pursued two salient themes: the historical imperatives of modern Zionism; and German culpability and its subset, the delusions of German Jews in their unrequited love affair.
Now, in "The Time of Our Singing" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $27), Powers continues his inventory of the salient themes of late-modern life, addressing a topic that has so far resisted most contemporary novelists, and certainly most contemporary white novelists: race.
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Transcribed interviews were systematically analyzed to identify salient themes.
Yet, we did not shut the door on new salient themes, which were not directly relevant to the research questions.
The salient themes of the Rubā'iyyāt became popular among the Pre-Raphaelites and their circle (Lange 1968).
Among the more salient themes in the classical republican tradition are the importance of civic virtue and the dangers of corruption.
Inductive coding of student statements on the open-ended questions asking them to share their impressions of the self-assessment activity revealed three salient themes: 1) Objectivity, 2) Responsibility and 3) Trust.
