Sentence examples for rather rugged from inspiring English sources

He gave Richard his devoted if rather rugged attention, and a degree of freedom that readers of contemporary parenting books would consider actionable.

Early media reports about the contestants' experience on the island painted a rather rugged picture, with the men and women eating rats and worms.

The author joined rangers in two protected areas on multiple patrols to determine how well such a camera would work in a rural and rather rugged environment.

The seafloor topography to the west of the KPR is flat, 5000 m deep, but a rather rugged seafloor fabric with N-S strike characterizes PVB to the east of the KPR.

The location and number of local minima shown in Figure 3 suggest that the cost function landscape is a rather rugged one, plagued with local minima.

For many conservatives, "oil" now sums up images of sinister Arabs rather than rugged Texans (the United States now imports more than half its oil compared with less than a third in 1970).

That might be practical but, to us, it looks cheap and gives the truck gawky rather than rugged lines.

I'm not even looking for a Mr Darcy tbh, I'd rather a rugged little rascal who wants to live out of wedlock and run up huge gambling debts, Mr. Wickham style, but even those seem to be hard to come by these days.

The life lessons that he imparts seem relatively simple and straightforward, but he dredges them not from his position as a respected businessman but, rather, from the rugged and rowdy, disreputable and freethinking life that he led on the rugged upward road to success.

In recent months, amid a series of American military operations that caused civilian casualties, Mr. Karzai has repeatedly said that the fight against the insurgents should not be waged "in the villages" of Afghanistan but rather in the rugged borderlands to the east and south.

Here, the trees live as a group rather than as rugged individuals.