Word: salient
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...salient point, he said, "is not a discussion of one article or another of the fundamental doctrines of the church that have been repeatedly taught by the fathers and the ancient and modern theologians." But merely calling a council implies change, and the Pope cautiously suggested the shape of the change. "The whole world expects a step forward toward a doctrinal penetration . . . studied and expounded through the methods of research and through the literary forms of modern thought." In effect, he recognized the value of recent Biblical scholarship, invited a new interpretation of doctrine. Closer to the Pope...
...audience yells, "Take it off, Baby, take it off!" When she has stripped down to pure buff, she bumps and grinds for a few minutes, then glides around the circle of ringside tables, stopping whenever a clean-cut, brush-topped young man reaches out to touch-test her salient features...
...several scenes, bottles of Hennessey's three-star appear as props; this should come as no surprise, for the Hollywood (sans slickness) quality of The Idiot is evidently its most salient feature. The Soviets have imitated American bombs in the past; hopefully The Idiot will prove the last to be dropped on Cambridge...
...four-minute part: Lotte Lenya conjuring up the ghostly, ghastly Berlin of the '20s and '30s in a raspy voice of tuneless authority. The Brecht on Brecht company of six actors is consistently bold, often astonishing, rarely commonplace. And doing Brecht at all is a salient rebuke to Broadway's timorous titans of trivia...
...gets hopelessly mixed up. No wonder; he should not have tried. Each species has its special and widely differing customs, and seldom do they resemble the ways of social man. Perhaps the most important difference is that man, being completely dominant, has no significant enemies among other animals. This salient distinction colors everything that man does...