How to Use cri de coeur in a Sentence

cri de coeur

noun

• His stress echoed the cri de coeur of many Russians struggling with the unchecked power of the police.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2020
• There is in the play this sort of cri de coeur from Priestly that's condemning bourgeois greed and narcissism.
  — Adam Green, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2017
• And as a lifelong ballet lover but ambivalent dance mom, here’s my cri de coeur: Do your kids a favor and banish the thought.
  — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
• Their efforts to transcend their station leads to a stark climax that is a silent, anguished and haunting cri de coeur.
  — Andy Webster, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
• Today, Season is his cri de coeur about how his plea has gone unheeded.
  — Clarence Tsui, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2018
• This makes next week’s election look less like a cri de coeur from a minority faction and more like playing with fire.
  — Anna Wiene, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2021
• And then why such a political cri de coeur from the inventor of a typewriter?
  — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• But was any Twitter cri de coeur more visceral than this one, from one Times colleague to another?
  — Heather Schwedel, Slate Magazine, 13 Oct. 2017
• Baldwin’s essay is a cri de coeur on the banality of American life.
  — Time, 30 Apr. 2021
• For their successors today, that cri de coeur is outdated.
  — Mattia Ferraresi, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• Two years ago, a cri de coeur of an essay addressing why middle-aged women were overwhelmed and exhausted went viral.
  — Hilary Howard, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2020
• And those journalists deserve to be heralded — just not in this holier-than-thou cinematic cri de coeur.
  — Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 12 July 2018
• The relationship offered a path to forgiveness for the kind of character most millennial cris de coeur have been content to leave hanging.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 29 Nov. 2019
• But the book's millennial cri de coeur can also tip into navel-gazing indulgence, heavy with the undergrad fugue of late night dorm-room debates and clove-cigarette smoke.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
• But when Connor dies by suicide, Evan’s cri de coeur is mistaken as intimate correspondence between the two.
  — Chris Lee, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
• Bukovsky’s uncompromising views should be seen as a cri de coeur from someone who devoted much of his life to fighting political tyranny.
  — Amy Knight, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020
• Thus did the cri de coeur of solidarity with the Palestinians fade against the military and technological allure of Israel.
  — Peter Rough, National Review, 27 Sep. 2020
• Crain’s sentences themselves, with their jewelled words and carefully curated perceptions, constitute a kind of cri de coeur.
  — Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2019
• But realizing the play’s own kind of mortality—its slow shift from urgent cri de coeur to period piece mined for pertinence—bathes it in a loving new light, one that Elliott teases out gracefully in this production’s finest scenes.
  — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 26 Mar. 2018
• Above all, though, this outstanding teacher reminds us that no matter how emotional the cri de coeur, calculation underlies the poet’s ecstasy.
  — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022
• Jimmy exits Season 4 in a jubilant mood after persuading the legal review board to reinstate his license to practice law with what appears to be a genuine cri de coeur invoking his late brother’s memory.
  — Hugh Hart, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024