Sentences with phrase «rugged individualist»

The attachments that develop among the members of small groups demonstrate clearly that we are not a society of rugged individualists who wish to go it entirely alone, but are a communal people who, even amid the dislocating tendencies of our society, are capable of banding together in bonds of mutual support.

I did wear them as a teen, along with 80 % of my high school friends — we were not rugged individualists yet: > It's still a great look.

I can understand why America would take him as a cultural icon; we don't like rules and restrictions and often valorize rugged individualists.

But Renegade is a venerable and familiar name in the Jeep line, and it's got Western movie connotations of rugged individualist types.

Downs extols the strong, silent temperament common to woodworkers, but it takes ages for him to realize that a shop full of rugged individualists needs cohesive leadership or the end product will suffer.

Perhaps in the 18th or early 19th century the simplicities of the free market made it possible for anybody with gumption to become a «rugged individualist» and shape his or her own destiny.

The triune God is no dispassionate unmoved mover, no rugged individualist.

She was a «stalwart conservative» and a bit of a rugged individualist» she could shoot a gun and dress a kill (if I had known of Sarah Palin's existence at the time, I'd have favorably compared the two)» and her concerns about the legislation were sound.

Such a person need not be overtly aggressive, like the rugged individualists who dominated the American business scene in the late nineteenth century.

Jesus, like Rand's protagonists, was a rugged individualist - for example, he camped in the wilderness and didn't wear shoes.

And of course we can not forget the rugged individualist on....

The «rugged individualist» decrying every form of collectivism, above all atheistic communism, as the very embodiment of evil, may be projecting his own dependency needs and needs for community, ruthlessly repressed and denied in himself, onto his alleged enemies.

Brady's father Wayne Blackburn (Tim Landreau) is a rugged individualist with a gambling streak.

As Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans, he internalized his months of preparation to give us a bracingly authentic portrait of a rugged individualist, one dashing and thrilling all at once.

A war is brewing that will put that legend to the test — a war between a local politicians who wants to rationalize and organize the illegal distilleries of the region and the Bondurants, who want no part of it, rugged individualists to the bitter end that they are.

Lucky's desert shack, style of dress and laconic affect all scream «cowboy,» and he is indeed a rugged individualist, albeit one whom advanced age has reduced to a fairly simple circuit of activities.

This entry strikes the open - world mayhem to Hope County, Montana — a lovely base of operations for outdoorspeople, rugged individualists, and a murderous demise cult.

All I hope is that the feds don't take even more of our blue state money to bail out the red state «rugged individualists» who build massive tract mansions on coastal barrier islands and in formerly low lying marshlands.

Cliven Bundy, a welfare queen who masquerades as a rugged individualist, was hailed by the right as a hero after it came to light that he had refused to pay his grazing fees for years.

During the Q&A period, Mann asserted that deniers of climate change have received «far too much prominence» in media reports and that nations such as the U.S. and Australia — perhaps due to their history of «contrarianism» and «the rugged individualist mindset» — have rejected limits on emissions eagerly accepted by European nations.

Best of all, Aprovecho's interns helped out with some of the construction as part of a workshop, proving that structures like these aren't always done alone by the rugged individualist, but are as much a product of communal efforts.