Self-reliant type

Usage examples of individualist.

But he was from the first an irrepressible individualist with a hatred of the arbitrariness of tsarist power.

What could they obtain through individual effort when South Russia was struck with the marmot plague, and all people living on the land, rich and poor, commoners and individualists, had to work with their hands in order to conjure the plague?

In the son, individualist by temperament, once the science of colleges had replaced thoroughly the faith of conventicles, this moral attitude translated itself into a frenzied puritanism of ambition.

He took a statistical view of all those who bathed in roof gutters, clamored behind horse-drawn vehicles, and descended on playgrounds after the last bell: in his opinion they were all individualists that had camouflaged themselves as a mass society.

Ambassador H'ffl had also confidentially told the Russians of the authoritarian and individualist factions among the Galactics—but in this version, the F'thk were socialists in the authoritarians' camp, worried about an anarchist mole in their midst.

Ambassador H'ffl had also confidentially told the Russians of the authoritarian and individualist factions among the Galactics—but in this version, the F'thk were socialists in the authoritarians' camp, worried about an anarchist mole in their midst.

By all rights, he ought to have gotten along with the newly arrived humans—professed altruists and collectivists that they were—but by nature, they were no more creatures of the flock than he was an individualist.

Prospectors and miners, existing at the edge of human civilization, independent individualists eking out their living in the vast dark emptiness of the Belt, surviving in a world of danger and loneliness.

The divvy-up is something you rugged individualists have to settle among yourselves.

The muties, individualists by the very nature of their existence and owing no allegiance higher than that to the leaders of their gangs, were no match for the planned generalship of Joe-Jim, nor did their weapons match the strange, long knives that bit before a man was ready.

I live among natural individualists and to an extent, because I'm sapient, have become one myself.

Beijing has never forgotten the hideous propaganda blunder committed by Deng, so they'll step lightly, but they're afraid of all these uncontrolled and uncontrollable individualists they've created—"

Although most of the small settlements on Rushima consisted of clusters of homes and storage sheds along the single primitive road that snaked through the eastern part of the main continent, there were always those individualists who desired privacy, unspoiled territory, or simply the chance to acquire a larger grant of land in compensation for developing areas far from existing transport.

Some individualists were prone to turning off their com systems for weeks at a time.

Most of them had been trappers, individualists who had pioneered in the Fenrian backlands before the companies took over.