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n. (alternative form of éminence grise English)
Usage examples of "gray eminence".
If you traveled to, say, the Gray Eminence's lands, that they call Tadesh, you would have to sail in a ship because there's a great ocean between his lands and these lands.
His officers attributed a second bon mot to him (though others gave the credit for it to a Scottish captain): in a war council at La Rochelle, the future gray eminence Pere Joseph, who prided himself on a knowledge of strategy, had put his finger on a map, saying, “.
Another, any of a million or a billion human historians, judging Daneel on his long record, might have given him a place in history, a steely gray eminence, equal to that of any human leader, perhaps far greater.
Wilson was taking a darker and darker view of the less and less gray eminence of House.
Krendler was a climber, the gray eminence at the shoulder of the Inspector General.
And I look forward to evolving into a further type, a gray eminence, the sort of degenerate emeritus figure called upon to settle disputes over some trifling point of island lore.
The spook from the revolution on Newpeace all those years ago, the gray eminence at the center of a web of interstellar assassination and intrigue, turned out to be a fixer who was desperately trying to save a planet from the posthumous legacy of a genocidal megalomaniac—.
Trevayne introduced the Gray Eminence of Terran Intelligence to the officers and politicians.