Sentence examples for rugged like from inspiring English sources

GATSBY The décor is faux rugged, like a 1940s dormitory gone to seed, matching the mood of the brand's early days as a prep-school staple.

"Frownland" (2008, Ronald Bronstein): A punk-like ferocious rage contained in a chamber-music-like precision; film stock run rugged like cold stone, light turned cruel; humiliation and degradation portrayed with tenderness and, ultimately, surprisingly, hope.

Sometimes these are made more rugged, like Panasonic Toughbook computers, or converted for other uses, like Xbox 360 video-game controllers adapted to operate small robotic ground vehicles used for reconnaissance.Apple's iPod and iPhone are among the latest additions to a soldier's kit.

It wasn't rugged like the LifeProof case, and it didn't come with any extra tricks like a fish-eye camera lens, a bottle-opener, or a swiss army knife-style assortment of blades and tools.

"They want to look rugged, like they smell of whiskey and cigarettes".

Whether you're looking to get away to someplace comfortable like a tropical isle or someplace rugged like a rainforest outpost, there is something on the menu for the adventure-minded traveler.

Even polished and smoothed down with time, and deepened in color by the warmth and skin oils of the wearer, turquoise retains a rugged, boulder-like quality, its blemishes like the hard-won scars of its formation from ancient volcanic rock.

Mr. Perez's quest to sell a Romanian S.U.V. is testament to the belief that American consumers will buy just about anything that resembles a descendant of the rugged, Jeep-like military vehicle.

Was the building damaged by the bomb blasts that shook it during the Vietnam War? A. The rugged, fortress-like building served as New York City's Army induction center from 1888 until 1972, and generations of draftees passed nervously through its shallow entrance arch, which was decorated with cannonballs, banners and breastplates, on the way to their physicals.

As a result of evolution, proteins have a rugged funnel-like landscape biased toward the native structure.

Known for their rugged, dome-like design, geodesic homes were invented by American architect R. Buckminster Fuller, who, according to the Buckminster Fuller Institute, "spent much of the 20th century looking for ways to improve human shelter".