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salient
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  • Very softly, still hearing the shake in her voice, she said everything that was salient, spitting it out like some horrible medicine too bitter to swallow.†   (source)
  • Daniel Anderson says that new research suggests that children actually don't like commercials as much as we thought they did because commercials "don't tell stories, and stories have a particular salience and importance to young people."†   (source)
  • Perhaps educators and researchers are wrong to be so hung up on the black-white test score gap; the bad-school/good-school gap may be the more salient issue.†   (source)
  • "Handsome and respectable," she says again, in case we missed this salient quality the first time.†   (source)
  • He probed my story for facts that would dovetail into the more salient charges.†   (source)
  • His most salient trait was his moodiness and a tendency to grow violent and lose his head, a characteristic he had had since childhood, when he used to throw himself on the floor foaming at the mouth, so furious that he could scarcely breathe, and kicking like one possessed by the devil.†   (source)
  • Seeing things as they were, and not as he would wish them to be, was one of his salient strengths.†   (source)
  • The third hearing refined the salient points further; by the end of the fourth, both Alex and Peter Holland had thirty to forty pages of "Are you ready?" asked the CIA's director from the couch, a pencil in his hand.†   (source)
  • I've noted the salient passages.†   (source)
  • Emancipation was a salient issue for Union soldiers because it was controversial.†   (source)
  • That boulder will be the salient.†   (source)
  • Hanne set the food out on plastic placemats, and soon she knew all the salient facts about him and he her.†   (source)
  • I had, of course, read this section many times before, but some of the salient facts had evidently failed to impress themselves clearly on my mind.†   (source)
  • He has mastered his homework, the shrewd Professor, in whose memory has lodged the salient fact that it is the oil-resistance of the new synthetic product which is so revolutionary and which is the key to its value and attractiveness.†   (source)
  • You would know those towns again, recognize the salient detail, seen so close up.†   (source)
  • I grabbed him, told him to go no further, and waited a few salient moments.†   (source)
  • Lara felt her size and her position in the bed with two points of her body-the salient of her left shoulder and the big toe of her right foot.†   (source)
  • Please tell us just the salient facts.
    salient = most important
  • Later, each man is called in and told to list everything he learned-fact by salient fact.†   (source)
  • So I roamed on past the balanced red brick dormitories with webs of leafless ivy clinging to them, through a ramshackle salient of the town which invaded the school for a hundred yards, past the solid gymnasium, full of students at this hour but silent as a monument on the outside, past the Field House, called The Cage—I remembered now what a mystery references to "The Cage" had been during my first weeks at Devon, I had thought it must be a place of severe punishment—and I reached the…†   (source)
  • His fondness for the new and better idea might be his salient weakness, but it sometimes served him well.†   (source)
  • It was during such moments that Jason learned the salient facts about the woman who had saved his life.†   (source)
  • It was his first extended political work and one of the most salient of his life, written at the age of thirty.†   (source)
  • They're salient points, I'd think.†   (source)
  • "It is hard to think of a context in which norms concerning helping those in distress are more salient than for a person thinking about the Good Samaritan, and yet it did not significantly increase helping behavior," Darley and Batson concluded.†   (source)
  • Seeing things as they were, not as he would wish they were, was known to be one of Washington's salient strengths, and having witnessed firsthand the "loose, disorderly, and unsoldierlike" state of things among the troops at Brooklyn, and knowing how outnumbered they were by the enemy, he might have ordered an immediate withdrawal back to New York while there was still time.†   (source)
  • The truth was, no matter what King Wah had said, no matter how clear the explanation of PTSD, no matter if the jury completely empathized with Peter-Jordan had forgotten one salient point: they would always feel sorrier for the victims.†   (source)
  • AFTER SOME WEEKS of study I still seemed to be as far as ever from solving the salient problem of how the wolves made a living.†   (source)
  • So many of his salient strengths—the acute legal mind, his command of the English language, his devotion to the ideals of the good society—so much that he knew of government, so much that he had read and written, could now be brought to bear on one noble task.†   (source)
  • Slavery was not salient for Confederate soldiers during most of the war because it was not controversial.†   (source)
  • Of these, Your Honor, it is Articles 8 and 9 which contain most of the salient points relevant to this case.†   (source)
  • "Listen carefully and be prepared to write down every salient fact, all the while feigning total lack of interest and offering such remarks as"-here the Novgorod graduate's Southern dialect became so rough-mountain South that the magnolias were replaced by sour mash-"†   (source)
  • His words were falling down a well, hitting stone salients on their way, and each salient refused to stop them, threw them farther, tossed them from one another, sent them to seek a bottom that did not exist.†   (source)
  • To comprehend Lincoln's strategy we must keep one salient fact in mind: the abolitionists and their humanitarian sympathizers in the nation at large and particularly in the Northwest, the seat of Lincoln's strength, although numerous enough to hold the balance of power, were far too few to make a successful political party.†   (source)
  • His words were falling down a well, hitting stone salients on their way, and each salient refused to stop them, threw them farther, tossed them from one another, sent them to seek a bottom that did not exist.†   (source)
  • This belt was the most salient thing about him.†   (source)
  • The salient thing of this other world seemed fear.†   (source)
  • One of the salient points of his character was the search for adventures and a love of romance.†   (source)
  • It seemed to me that we were simply going over and over the same ground again, and so I took note of some salient point, and found that this was so.†   (source)
  • He looked over the remainder of the team with a speculative eye that summed up instantly the salient traits of each animal.†   (source)
  • The last salient point in which the systems of these creatures differed from ours was in what one might have thought a very trivial particular.†   (source)
  • Cobwebs revealed their presence on sheds and walls where none had ever been observed till brought out into visibility by the crystallizing atmosphere, hanging like loops of white worsted from salient points of the out-houses, posts, and gates.†   (source)
  • He had a thin horseshoe beard, salient cheek-bones, and with both elbows on the desk clasped his rugged hands before his face, looking at Jim with thoughtful blue eyes; the other, a heavy, scornful man, thrown back in his seat, his left arm extended full length, drummed delicately with his finger-tips on a blotting-pad: in the middle the magistrate upright in the roomy arm-chair, his head inclined slightly on the shoulder, had his arms crossed on his breast and a few flowers in a glass…†   (source)
  • Thus on a particular evening in the month, when it had grown quite late—to near midnight, indeed—and the light of his lamp, shining from his window at a salient angle of the hill-top town over infinite miles of valley westward, announced as by words a place and person given over to study, he was not exactly studying.†   (source)
  • Kennicott was respectful as he inquired whether the Germans had good aeroplanes, and what a salient was, and a cootie, and Going West.†   (source)
  • In fact, this oiliness, or greasiness, as I was later to learn, was probably the most salient expression of his personality.†   (source)
  • Not only the big, salient, vital facts, about how fast the Sunday School—and the collection—is growing, but a lot of humorous gossip and kidding: about how some blowhard fell down on his pledge to get new members, or the good time the Sacred Trinity class of girls had at their wieniewurst party.†   (source)
  • There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing and describing salient points, either in persons or things: the good lady evidently belonged to this class; my queries puzzled, but did not draw her out.†   (source)
  • His salient angles fitted into the retreating angles of the cathedral (if we may be allowed this figure of speech), and he seemed not only its inhabitant but more than that, its natural tenant.†   (source)
  • Two little spotless flags were abroad, the one on a salient angle of the fort, and the other on the advanced battery of the besiegers; emblems of the truth which existed, not only to the acts, but it would seem, also, to the enmity of the combatants.†   (source)
  • At the salient of that second angle was a large flat rock, jutting out northward, overlooking the deep valley from which the road ascended.†   (source)
  • With nearer approach these fragmentary sounds became pieced together, and were found to be the salient points of the tune called "Nancy's Fancy."†   (source)
  • With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which constituted what Folard in his strategical style would have termed a branch and taking into account, also, the narrow cutting arranged on the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all sides.†   (source)
  • It rested upon two figures which, in spite of increasing distance, were still sufficiently salient; they were recognisable without difficulty as those of Caspar Goodwood and Lord Warburton.†   (source)
  • A faint illumination from its rays began to glow upon her face, and the fire soon revealed itself to be lit, not on the level ground, but on a salient corner or redan of earth, at the junction of two converging bank fences.†   (source)
  • The crowd grew more dense every moment, and, like water, which rises above its normal level, began to mount along the walls, to swell around the pillars, to spread out on the entablatures, on the cornices, on the window-sills, on all the salient points of the architecture, on all the reliefs of the sculpture.†   (source)
  • This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen and penetrating, and an expression of countenance resembling at once the polecat and the fox.†   (source)
  • Which event or person emerged as the salient point of his narration?†   (source)
  • [19] Here American spelling has driven in a salient, but has yet to take the whole position.†   (source)
  • The English distinction between /will/ and /shall/ offers a salient case in point.†   (source)
  • As for /partridge/, it is cited by a late authority[32] as a salient example of changed meaning, along with /corn/ and /store/.†   (source)
  • Here the listener who was none other than the Scotch student, a little fume of a fellow, blond as tow, congratulated in the liveliest fashion with the young gentleman and, interrupting the narrative at a salient point, having desired his visavis with a polite beck to have the obligingness to pass him a flagon of cordial waters at the same time by a questioning poise of the head (a whole century of polite breeding had not achieved so nice a gesture) to which was united an equivalent but…†   (source)
  • Sensible of a benignant persistent ache in his footsoles he extended his foot to one side and observed the creases, protuberances and salient points caused by foot pressure in the course of walking repeatedly in several different directions, then, inclined, he disnoded the laceknots, unhooked and loosened the laces, took off each of his two boots for the second time, detached the partially moistened right sock through the fore part of which the nail of his great toe had again…†   (source)
  • They recognize a fluent command of it as the salient mark of a "smart" and [Pg186] "educated" man, one with "the gift of gab."†   (source)
  • [Pg173] Among the vowels the most salient difference between English and American pronunciation, of course, is marked off by the flat American /a/.†   (source)
  • So far as I can discover, there is not a single treatise in type upon one of its most salient characters—the wide departure of some of its vowel sounds from those of orthodox English.†   (source)
  • They meet the ends of [Pg034] purely descriptive lexicography, but largely leave out of account some of the most salient characters of a living language, for example, pronunciation and idiom.†   (source)
  • In the last chapter we glanced at several salient differences between the common coin of English and the common coin of American—that is, the verbs and adjectives in constant colloquial use—the rubber-stamps, so to speak, of the two languages.†   (source)
  • An American born and bred, I early noted, as everyone else in like case must note, certain salient differences between the English of England and the English of America as practically spoken and written—differences in vocabulary, in syntax, in the shades and habits of idiom, and even, coming to the common speech, in grammar.†   (source)
  • [Pg242] VII Differences in Spelling § 1 /Typical Forms/—Some of the salient differences between American and English spelling are shown in the following list of common words: /American/ /English/ Anemia anaemia aneurism aneurysm annex (noun) annexe arbor arbour armor armour asphalt asphalte ataxia ataxy ax axe balk (verb) baulk baritone barytone bark (ship) barque behavior behaviour behoove behove buncombe bunkum burden (ship's) burthen cachexia cachexy caliber calibre candor candour…†   (source)
  • Those in the use of the verb drop from 57 per cent of the total to 52 per cent, but the double negatives remain at 7 per cent and the errors in the case of pronouns at 11 per cent. In the written work of grades VI and VII, however, certain changes appear, no doubt because of the special pedagogical effort against the more salient oral errors.†   (source)
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