rugged individualist
Example Sentences
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She’s a rugged individualist whose decisions are guided by a need for self-reliance and an excess of pride, clichés of the Western genre that have been around for as long as the genre has existed.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2021
People would have started to write and talk about what a stand-up guy J.C. is, a rugged individualist.
From Golf Digest ● May 11, 2020
Freelancers are 2020’s rugged individualist frontiersmen, living off the fat of corporations, owing nobody anything.
From The Verge ● Feb. 26, 2020
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.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2017
It belongs to Cleveland Amory, an affable and rugged individualist who has been a celebrated writer for more than half of his 61 years.
From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Millard, Max
