Behind our slick professional personas and chiselled, rugged features, a battle rages.
He had always been a rugged character, a battler, but this was a new, harder edge – he refused to talk to the opposition, and demanded complete discipline and commitment from his team in the field.
The rugged, emotionally unavailable battler is a stereotype that our local film industry has recently been trying to break down, in an attempt to express a wider range of male emotions.
Torre may not have had to battle through the rugged American League East and may have benefited by the gift of Ramírez, but he was hardly given a free ride to the postseason.
The battle on a rugged, boulder-filled mountain is incredibly confusing for SEAL Team 10 as they often have no idea, and occasionally miscalculate, the exact location of the Taliban.
Many aircrew and passengers owed their survival in crash landings to its rugged construction, and its resistance to battle damage was legendary.
While an interior battle between Kentucky's rugged forward Josh Harrellson and the Ohio State standout Jared Sullinger commanded attention, the night came down to a jumper by the guard Brandon Knight with 5.4 seconds left to secure the win.
Sitting on a plastic lawn chair in a grubby white T-shirt and jeans as his two dogs wrestle nearby, John Schultheis looks more like a rugged camper than a homeless man battling the brutal city streets.
We had the Maria Sharapova and Rafael Nadal impersonations earlier in the week, but yesterday Novak Djokovic needed to concentrate on just being himself as he battled sickness and a rugged opponent in David Ferrer in the semi-final of US Open.
Firefighters confronted hot, dry weather and steep, rugged terrain Saturday as they continued to battle the Erskine Fire, which has grown to more than 46 square miles and destroyed 150 homes and other structures.
