| The celebration of rugged individualism during westward expansion in the mid-1800s surely had a lasting influence as well. |
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| But both extremes, rugged individualism and ruthless collectivism, are unbalanced and destructive. |
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| Western images serve as shorthand images of patriotism, democracy, rugged individualism, and a host of other virtues. |
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| In the novel, Henry's rugged individualism and disdain for society are stylizations of his father's misanthropy. |
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| Even that ultimate symbol of rugged individualism, the cowboy, is an endangered species. |
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| He was a craggy, bearded bear of a man in a black Stetson, who seemed to embody the rugged individualism of the pioneer. |
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| No other group so fully embodies the American spirit of bravery and rugged individualism. |
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| What about the ideal of rugged individualism, and the popular portrait of divorce as an act of courageous, costly, self-redemptive self-realization? |
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| I will miss his eclectic, enthusiastic, unassuming, rugged individualism. |
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| Many Americans embrace rugged individualism and reject restrictions on behaviors that pose risks to health. |
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| Less than a year later, the 1929 Stock Market crash began to unravel Hoover's staunch belief in rugged individualism. |
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| Pluriformity must be linked with fraternity in order to avoid rugged individualism. |
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| This, he felt, helped foster the importance placed on rugged individualism and independence that still imbues many discussions of southern values. |
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| They have created a tolerant yet orderly society, and have married mateship with rugged individualism. |
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| But what both men had in common was a streak of rugged individualism, stubbornness, and personal vision. |
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| But in speaking of the capitalist phase of rugged individualism and competition, we think of an all-pervasive structural principle of social organization. |
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| Maybe our rugged individualism opposes collective hypnosis. |
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| Every North American family, it seems, includes at least one indomitable aunt who lives contentedly by herself, or a bachelor uncle who treasures the rugged individualism of keeping his own household. |
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| Rugged individualism conflicted with military discipline and regimentation. |
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