Perhaps the most salient fact about African letters today didn't have to be articulated.
Why was it that people never thought to take note of salient facts?
The single salient fact is this: I was about to be committed.
When a study is reported in the news, look at a few salient facts: did it include thousands of people, or dozens?
So standards have fallen, but access has risen; which is the more salient fact?
"Later, each man is called in and told to list everything he learned-fact by salient fact."
An objective look at the City turns up four salient facts.
This was something he would return to later, thought Max, after he'd learned the more salient facts.
What was more, though the names changed the salient facts were the same from one account to the next.
But in this biography, too, we learn the salient facts of an artist's development without really coming to understand how they happened.