eminence grise

Even before his long career in government ended, he was an éminence grise in American public life.

“He was very bitter,” says longtime Granite State Republican eminence and former state attorney general Tom Rath.

The eminence was asked, the next morning, “Well, you've met the young Yeats— what did you think of him?”

Bill Clinton could have a relationship with an intern and still be greeted as an éminence grise years later.

Or, in the case of Bob Dole, they retired to a sort of a bipartisan eminence and were mostly forgotten.

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.

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