CRI
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Example Sentences
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In both cases, it was hard to not admire the candor amid agony: Malinin for standing up and plainly admitting he “blew it,” Vonn for her blunt cri de cœur from her hospital bed: “I tried. I dreamt. I jumped.”
This was not just a cri de coeur against ICE.
From Slate
McDonald was given the impossible task of performing “Rose’s Turn” on the telecast, her character’s Lear-like cri de cœur in song.
From Los Angeles Times
In any case he concludes with this rousing cri de guerre:
From Salon
A cri de coeur then, from beyond the grave.
From Los Angeles Times
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