The salient feature of the third world was that it wanted economic and political clout.It is getting both.
It was splendid fun, to begin with; and that is the salient feature of a camping movement, whatever its ethical side.
The salient feature of the Stravinsky was the variety of string sound he elicited -- icy at times, warm and lush elsewhere -- and some superb solo wind playing.
Yet the salient feature of this music is its structural logic, and there is something to be said for cloaking that logic in the soft tissue of emotionalism.
Literary critics have speculated that Lovecraft was secretly gay, but the salient feature of his sexuality really seems to be how indifferent he was to it.
Leverage increasing the likely gain or loss from an investment of a given size is the salient feature of many derivatives.
The salient feature of American public life today is the extent to which the business of the permanent campaign has come to dominate the business of government.
In all of these cases — dystopia, conspiracy, bureaucracy, despair — the salient feature of the rabbit hole is that you cannot find your way out.
Mr. Fleisher was at his best here: the work's counterpoint couldn't have been more transparent, yet the salient feature of the performance was not its analytical lucidity but its pure, high-energy drama.
The salient feature of her reading of the Part, which opened the program, was an approach to phrasing that created an emotional arch over the minimalistically repeating chorale figure in the piano.
But the salient feature of Nachman's list, of which he seems curiously unaware, is that these groups all worked as teams, exchanging information and ideas, consciously striving to create something new -- hardly what you could call an accident.
