Sentence examples for rugged individuals from inspiring English sources

Certain to be tagged by critics as the documentary Disney wanted you to see, the film is an unabashedly patriotic assemblage of iconographic images -- the Statue of Liberty, Monument Valley -- broken up with thumbnail sketches of rugged individuals, including a Colorado cowboy and an Appalachian rug weaver, pursuing their American dreams.

But somehow, capitalism never trickled down to aspiring '49ers like Mr. Pastukhov, rugged individuals who prospect in solitude and would like to keep their finds to themselves.

Living in this far outpost of civilization does strange things to Miles and his team, all rugged individuals who like a good fire and love their trucks.

So now millions of rugged individuals roar through cities in great herds, wearing the same clothes and riding the same bikes to the same places.

Nobody knows the woods of Maine like the rugged individuals who eke out a living by hunting, fishing and cutting timber.

Mr. Beatty sustains his book's verbal vitality to the end, but you wonder whether, having created this raucous group of rugged individuals, he himself knew exactly what to do with them.

Ford's movies didn't really celebrate the rugged individual.

"I was a rugged individual, against the world," he said.

Our culture idealizes the "rugged individual" presumed to be independent of others.

And I like a mountain man, a rugged individual, oh, my God.

That means they are less likely to subscribe to the cowboy ethos of the rugged individual.