tout court - adv - Briefly: without qualification or additional information.
A foreign term for the reading vocabulary.
And now - humor a middle-aged fat man with trifocals - another modern who strikes my fancy, Charlize Theron. She does a great Georgia accent, and she gave one of the gutsiest answers I've ever heard in an interview. When asked why she left South Africa (she's a Boer!), she replied, "It was no place for a pretty white girl." Her one defect, which I find easy to overlook, is that she's only an inch shorter than I am; in heels, she'd be a little taller.
