gray eminence
Example Sentences
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At first just a gray eminence working behind the scenes while Clarence pounded the pavement, he gradually grew in prominence, reaching a fun spy-movie throwback sweet spot last episode.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2024
A gray eminence of the avant-garde theater world, Iván disdains the bourgeois sensibilities of Félix’s fans and the kind of work he does to entertain them.
From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2022
One of these, an unnamed "gray eminence" who ran a graduate workshop that Wallace attended in the 1980s, scolded his students for including "trendy mass-popular-media" references in their work.
From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2011
His hurtling design there was certified at once as "the most important building of our time" by Philip Johnson, the very gray eminence of American architects.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Age of Aquarius it is not particularly prestigious to be a gray eminence.
From Time Magazine Archive
