cri de coeur
Americannoun
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cris de coeur
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cri de coeur
First recorded in 1895–1900; literally, “cry of (the) heart”
Example Sentences
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He is the author of “Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind,” published in May, a cri de coeur against “maladaptively irrational altruism.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Supreme Court as a kind of cri de coeur, asking, Can we please talk about the death penalty?
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2024
For 20 years, Participant Media has been Hollywood’s pre-eminent maker of activist entertainment, backing socially conscious films like “An Inconvenient Truth,” a climate change cri de coeur, and “Wonder,” about a boy with birth defects.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
And if his epic celebrates a certain type of monarchy and the invariably white races “of the West,” it is also a cri de coeur against authoritarianism, political division and the power of exploited grievance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
That very day, he dispatched to Ernest an indignant cri de coeur: Dear Lawrence: What is going on?
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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