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Recent Examples of cri de coeurThis personal cri de coeur is echoed in the general complaint that presents have made the holidays too commercial, material and consumerist.—Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023 The two socialist thinkers published the Communist Manifesto during the revolutionary year 1848, a cri de coeur against grotesque inequality and exploitation that still resonates with readers nearly two centuries later.—Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023 Penn spent 33 days in jail in 1987 for punching a guy, as referenced in his Smith cri de coeur.—Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023 Set in the hinterlands of Alberta, the movie focuses on several teenagers, both living and dead — a haunting that feels like a generational cri de coeur.—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for cri de coeur
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