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This personal cri de coeur is echoed in the general complaint that presents have made the holidays too commercial, material and consumerist.
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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
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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
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“Cri de coeur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cri%20de%20coeur. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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