This new, Gallicized version of prep ditches all those sporty collegiate references, along with duck boots (awkward in most cities, absurd in Paris) and rugged fantasies dressed up in words like "heritage" and "distressed".
It is no surprise that the chrome-plated titan of rugged adventure fantasies — the S.U.V. — rose up after the minivan.
Gold miners, oil workers, hunters, trappers and fishermen moving here in droves to live out the fantasy of a rugged, prosperous life on the frontier, a fantasy not often shared by women.
But though the director's jet-set fantasy world of rugged jewel thieves and sailboat races, triste cabaret singers and sybaritic pleasures may feel dated and more than a little decadent, it is a nice enough place to visit.
In America, if there is one thing that sells more units than a dream of rugged individualism, it is the fantasy of feeling as comfortable in harsh conditions as a famous person seems to be.
Did the well-born and even-tempered painter have a rugged nautical side, or nurture fantasies of roiled, Turneresque waters?
It also burdened Mr. Cruise's character, Ethan Hunt, with a wife (Michelle Monaghan), an unwise move — American action heroes, latter-day fantasies of our native rugged individualism, walk alone, not down the aisle — which suggested that the soon-to-be-remarried Mr. Cruise was borrowing a chapter from his own life.
It is the US-based crowdfunding website behind dozens of eclectic projects, including a $1m-backed 1m-backedebcomic and an unlikely brand ofantasyed yet refined" men's underwebcomic
As we descended the rugged slope toward Muir Beach, we, along with the girls, indulged in a collective fantasy that we were slipping down the water slide into the Fairmont Kea Lani Maui pool.
That fantasy appeals to a strain in American culture that venerates the rugged individual, the person who masters their environment.
