"rugged reality" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is harsh, difficult, or uncomfortable. For example, "The refugees faced the rugged reality of trying to find a new home."
Interviewing Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, he went off on Mr. Pratt in a way that rarely occurs outside some of the more rugged reality shows on television.
By the time it ends in 1793, just before Antoinette meets the guillotine, he, like many modern-day upper-class idealists, has found that there is a huge gulf between populist pronouncements and rugged reality.
In a world where most people prefer their encounters with nature to be confined to a factory-plucked turkey followed by an animated film about penguins, I know I am in a minority in wanting to confront the natural world in all its rugged reality – or something like it, since we now can't be useful and actually set out to kill vermin.
"It takes terrific satisfaction in the poets' testimony that the U.S.A. is too tough, too big, too much, too rugged, that American reality is overpowering".
The deaths of two soldiers, and the hospitalization of another, while apparently engaged in the selection course for Special Forces reserves in the rugged Brecon Beacons, brings home an oft-obscured reality.
When Wayne McLaren -- one of several Marlboro cowboys to contract lung cancer -- created a series of TV commercials portraying his rugged, Stetson-adorned persona next to his hospital-bed reality, Philip Morris denied that he had ever appeared in their ad-campaigns.
And is it not the quaint farms, as much as the rugged landscape, that holidaymakers in search of authenticity want to see?In reality, the average French arable farm has already grown in size, by 40% over the past decade.
Wagner College, the smallest school in the N.C.A.A. tournament, got a dose of reality last night when the announcement came that Pittsburgh, a rugged and tested team from the Big East Conference, would be its first-round opponent.
His career illustrates one of the stubborn paradoxes of Hollywood: the film industry loves the myth of the auteur, the rugged individual filmmaker who plays by his own rules, until faced with the reality.
In her cult novels "Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" and other works, Rand described rugged and unbending individualists who embodied a raw brand of capitalism and a metaphysical conviction that reality was fixed and objectively knowable.
As Ms. Dati exits French politics for the more genteel environment of European Union lawmaking in Brussels and Strasbourg, the reality appears more complex — combining strands of immigrant achievement, gossip-page glamour and the rugged infighting of French politics.
