gray eminence
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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
If it's all a bit Marlin Perkins, esteemed gray eminence of Wild Kingdom, it's also a bit Dr. Doolittle--maybe not the best association for a man whose agenda is stalled.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Bentsen, for the moment, remains as genteel as a second-generation landowner and as formal as a senatorial gray eminence.
From Time Magazine Archive
