eminence grise
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Alexander Hamilton, by then a New York lawyer who still played the president’s éminence grise, wanted Washington to exit as he entered: a unifying figure optimistic about the “infant nation.”
From Slate • Feb. 17, 2025
He too was sage-like, however feistily so, in his later years, an éminence grise who in 2017 was awarded the Kyoto Prize, the closest a musicologist can get to a Nobel.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2022
For the inaugural exhibition, Superblue included “AKHU” by James Turrell, the Southern Californian who is an éminence grise of the experiential art world.
From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2021
Multiple experts praised his skill — Dr. Walter Straus, an associate vice president at the drug company Merck & Co., said Whitley is an "éminence grise" in pediatrics whom people trust.
From Salon • Sep. 26, 2020
Although he may have always been described as the enfant terrible of fashion, today Gaultier is one the industry’s éminence grise.
From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2020
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