eminence grise
Example Sentences
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But he was hardly anyone’s idea of an eminence grise when he was plucked from relative obscurity as publisher of Pan Books, Britain’s paperback king, to run America’s most storied hardcover imprint.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2019
As a kid, Hogan hovered like a disapproving eminence grise over my fledgling attempts to become a grown-up.
From Golf Digest • Jul. 12, 2018
The Hollywood Reporter recently ran a heart-tugging profile of the once eminence grise broadcaster Charlie Rose, depicting him as “broken, brilliant and lonely”, miserably playing tennis at his $4m-$6m home.
From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2018
How did the son of a Methodist minister and graduate of a small college in rural Missouri become an eminence grise of the global economy?
From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2013
But the VMAs are not a show that grows up with you, and Ms. Swift was a virtual eminence grise here.
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2012
