grey eminence
Britishnoun
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As ghostwriter, campaign adviser, and grey eminence behind the conservative fortunes of Republican Senator Barry Goldwater.
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Brezhnev was Nikita's man in Kazakhstan during the first two critical years of the Virgin Lands program, has subsequently acted as the Kremlin's grey eminence in handling major problems in industry, space and defense.
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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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Costa himself, no longer content to play Brazil's great grey eminence, was more than willing.
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Thomas Mann, grey eminence of expatriate belles lettres, set an old pot aboil-ing again when he returned to his native Germany.
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