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.
"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.
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.
The salient themes of the Rubā'iyyāt became popular among the Pre-Raphaelites and their circle (Lange 1968).
A comparison of the salient themes across all the interviews by creating cross-case matrices and concept maps revealed several notable patterns in the data (Maxwell 2005; Seidman 1998a, 1998b).
Though philosophical rationalism forms the basis of aesthetics in the early Enlightenment in France and Germany, thinkers in the empiricist tradition in England and Scotland introduce many of the salient themes of Enlightenment aesthetics.
In a country where some 100,000 have lost their lives in the decade-long drug war, narco-violence will figure as one of the salient themes during the week-long papal visit.
To identify the salient themes and concepts emerging, data were analysed thematically [ 16- 18].
This paper focuses on the notion of control, one of the salient themes that emerged from the analysis.
