Cri de Coeur

A “cri de coeur” (KREE duh KUR) - French for “cry of the heart” - is an anguished cry of distress or indignation.

Example (as used by Joyce Carol Oates in The New York Times): “The tersely titled Prep is not a brilliantly corrosive adolescent cri de coeur like J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye… .”

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