Thesaurus / eminence grise

eminence grise

synonyms for eminence grise

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All parties have borne testimony to the value of his services, and the eminence of his talents.

He who has attained it grows giddy, and the fiercest winds are summoned to blow him from his eminence.

He was the son of a miller, and raised himself to eminence by his great talent and genius as a painter.

There was another theory promulgated many years back by certain people of some degree of eminence in their own walk in life.

ANTONIO STRADIVARIHORACE WILLIAM PETHERICK

We did not perceive the little town until we had surmounted the last eminence and were in its immediate vicinity.

He sees nothing in any one of these religions to justify its claim to infallibility or pre-eminence.

On a little eminence in the midst of these stands the chapel of Our Lady, which is the parish church of a large district.

The church is situated on a platform, rather more than half way up a steep eminence overlooking the bay.

Removed unnecessary closing quotation mark after: he might have the pre-eminence.

After the burning, the bones are collected, placed in an urn, and interred upon some eminence under a small monument.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985