NOUN
- individualism in social and economic affairs; belief not only in personal liberty and self-reliance but also in free competition
How To Use rugged individualism In A Sentence
- What about the ideal of rugged individualism, and the popular portrait of divorce as an act of courageous, costly, self-redemptive self-realization?
- The celebration of rugged individualism during westward expansion in the mid-1800s surely had a lasting influence as well.
- Talbott said the jamboree is a celebration of rugged individualism that manifests itself in the way a person steps up to a challenge, as well as athletic prowess. Billingsgazette.com
- Western images serve as shorthand images of patriotism, democracy, rugged individualism, and a host of other virtues.
- In the novel, Henry's rugged individualism and disdain for society are stylizations of his father's misanthropy.
- Even that ultimate symbol of rugged individualism, the cowboy, is an endangered species.
- No other group so fully embodies the American spirit of bravery and rugged individualism.
- He was a craggy, bearded bear of a man in a black Stetson, who seemed to embody the rugged individualism of the pioneer.
- But both extremes, rugged individualism and ruthless collectivism, are unbalanced and destructive.
- American prosperity was based on rugged individualism and self-reliance, on business enterprise and on minimising the weight of government on both citizen and industry. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
