Recent Examples on the WebConcern about media bias — specifically politically liberal bias — has moved center stage thanks to the cri de coeur by National Public Radio’s Uri Berliner in the Free Press.—Howard Husock, National Review, 21 Apr. 2024 Elizabeth’s cri de coeur for employing a Washer of the Sovereign’s Hands, a Warden of the Swans, and a Hereditary Grand Falconer stands out as one of the most monarchist moments of the entire series.—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023 This 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 The difference between told something is super-hot versus actual heat is huge, of course, in the same way that using horror in a subversive, socially conscious way isn’t the same as being clumsily beaten about the head with ideas in an eye-candy cri de coeur with a suspenseful soundtrack.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2022 In addition, protests in Khuzestan Province over a severe water shortage are spreading across the country, in a sort of collective cri de coeur against the systemic corruption and mismanagement by Tehran that has turned a wealthy, resourceful country into a barren desert.—Victoria Coates, National Review, 2 Aug. 2021
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