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cri de coeur

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cri de coeur  (kr d kr)
n. pl. cris de coeur (kr)
An impassioned outcry, as of entreaty or protest.
[French cri de cur : cri, cry + de, of + cur, heart.]


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This is why parents today feel out of joint with the culture and why their cri de coeur is more than cranky complaint.
Parenthood: once the norm, now the exception? by Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe / Commonweal
The piece is a long cri de coeur over how author Caitlin Flanagan's generation of professional women has betrayed the values of feminism--hell, the values of humanity--through a shameful vice: hiring women from the Third World to work as nannies.
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Halio's cri de coeur prefaces and ironically adumbrates the trio of informative theatrical surveys with which the volume concludes, Gayle Gaskill's on recent productions of The Merchant in America, John O'Connor's on Shylock through the years, and Penny Gay's on Portia.
New Critical Essays by Moisan, Thomas / Renaissance Quarterly
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