The phrase "an authentic individual" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is genuine, true to themselves, or not pretending to be someone else.
Example: "In a world full of facades, she remains an authentic individual, always expressing her true thoughts and feelings."
Alternatives: "a genuine person" or "a real individual".
Pappajohn was both a source of kinetic thrill and an appealing, authentic individual, spilling courage and pheromones as he raced, mostly airborne, after ballerina Katherine Barkman.
If you're not naturally confident and at-ease, at least have the guts to be yourself; a nervous but authentic individual has a lot more to offer than a preening peacock with no substance.
While it was Ms. Harper's "fine sense of line, texture and balance" that made her an easy choice for inclusion on the list of the world's best-dressed people, as Ms. Collins of Vanity Fair said, what sends her paparazzi metrics rocketing is how she reads in pictures as a beacon of authentic individual style.
So then you see that - now wait a second if I've got all these inconsistencies all over the place in my character can I really say that I'm a sincere and authentic individual?
As for his appeal: "They see an authentic, accomplished individual who is willing to speak the truth and offer real solutions," Ma says.
We know that people respond to authentic, individual care.
Banville can really be like this, the sort of writer who, distrustful of ordinary modes of expression, locks horns with language in order to convey authentic individual experience.
But the authentic individual will be the one who takes up the terrifying freedom of being the ultimate source of values, embraces it, and acts with a clarity and firmness suitable to his or her best understanding of what is right in this context.
The authentic individual continues to persist in his relationship with these forms and mediums as well as the stories he publishes.
