Sentence examples for salient things from inspiring English sources

They wear expressions that are closed, like prison doors, and by degrees we learn two salient things about this community.

"So we can say not only 'this is what I found,' but 'these are the most salient things about it.' That will make us more productive".

But probably the two most salient things we're after -- because if you say you're after everything you sort of are after nothing -- would be the licensing of handgun owners and the registration of all handguns on a national basis.

Two salient things about Debbie: Terry, who raised eyebrows by living in not-so-priestly closeness with his Rwandan housekeeper, will be secular enough to like her style, and what she passes off as the true story of her automotive mishap is baloney.

Efros is intrigued by what he calls this "dual quality" of the averages: "on the one hand, they're just really beautiful and eerie," he said, but "they also perhaps try to capture some kind of meaning — the salient things in the data".

I hacked away big chunks of prose that I had already fallen in love with, and I erased 50 years off one character, whom I am changing from an old woman to a young woman (because I am changing the year in which the story takes place), and I spent a lot of time trolling the Internet for salient things that happened in this new era.

Again and again, she said, they homed in on the truly salient thing about the wilderness lives she so often portrayed.

In the Village, where Broyard started a bookstore on Cornelia Street, the salient thing about him wasn't that he was black but that he was beautiful, charming, and erudite.

Ilana's depression hasn't come up until now because it's a condition, one that she has largely under control – it's present, but it's not the most salient thing about her.

The second most salient thing is that this elaborate superproduction is proudly homemade: written and directed by Mariano Llinás, right, who also co-starred and composed the de facto theme song, all for the grand sum of $50,000.

Perhaps the most salient thing about the foundation that bears his name is that Donald Trump himself has given a relatively small amount of money to the Trump Foundation and none since 2009, although we won't know for sure until – don't hold your breath – Trump releases his tax returns.