grey eminence
Britishnoun
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The habitual viewer knows that it has industry, because Winston Grimsley, a fuddy financier, is the grey eminence of these modest family fortunes.
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As much perhaps as anyone else, Carr Vattel Van Anda made the New York Times the grey eminence it has become.
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As ghostwriter, campaign adviser, and grey eminence behind the conservative fortunes of Republican Senator Barry Goldwater.
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The grey eminence himself has even appeared at that squarest of social gatherings, a writers' conference.
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Costa himself, no longer content to play Brazil's great grey eminence, was more than willing.
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