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What is a cri de coeur?

What is a cri de coeur? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An impassioned outcry, appeal, protest or entreaty.
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Enlightened self-interest, then, is the cri de coeur of the liberal interventionists.
This is all Murray and strings-an eight-minute, superbly paced cri de coeur, combining romance and drollery before attaining a deep, persuasive resolution.
In these pregnant and moving words rang the cri de coeur which was to precipitate the tragedy of Mary Sheppard.
That cri de coeur rang in Jewdwine's brain for the next twenty-four hours.
He could have posted his original remarks on the White House website and replaced them with a cri de coeur on gun control, or comfort for the shaken city.
For a long time, though, she turned down invitations to visit Vietnam, partly because she saw her husband's act as non-partisan, a cri de coeur against killing in general.

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