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(French) a person who exercises power or influence in certain areas without holding an official position
the President's wife is an eminence grise in matters of education
How To Use eminence grise In A Sentence
- Borusa had no wish to become president[Sentence dictionary], instead preferring to operate as an eminence grise behind the scenes.
- There was, for instance, Mary Cheney: She was, on the one hand, the daughter of the man who was the real string-puller and eminence grise (shadow eminence) behind the boy-king, George W. Bush's "throne. Eberhard Kronhausen and Phyllis Kronhausen: Missing the Point -- Again!
- the President's wife is an eminence grise in matters of education
- A Texan gentleman with private means, he has been the eminence grise behind four relatively liberal Texas governors.
- And trust mustn't even be used in the same sentence with Lotso, an ominously unctuous old teddy bear who's the eminence grise plus fraise; he smells of strawberries of the daycare center's playthings. An Ode to 'Toy'
- Since joining Citigroup in 1999, he has focused mainly on strategy, assuming an "eminence grise" role as a close adviser to Prince, while leaving day-to-day business operations to others.
- Of course, this "defendant" hadn't, but there were people who were also in the business of "antiquities collecting" (as it is sometimes euphemistically referred to) who had, namely the unnamed eminence grise behind Michael Baigent's most recent and rather untypically somewhat lightweight, "The Jesus Papers" (Harper Collins, 2006). Robert Eisenman: The James Ossuary: Is It Authentic? (An Update)
