grey eminence BrE
gray eminence AmE
éminence grise , also: eminence grise

All of our time will go to some grey eminence who hasn't had an idea in her head for fifty years."

Maecenas was a grey eminence, a diplomat, a dealer in men's fates.

These spoofs on international events are usually presented in an anti-Bush manner, mocking the fact that grey eminences lead the politic, not the president himself.

Grey Eminence (1941)

Grey Eminence by Mercedes Lackey:

Grey Eminence: Fox Conner and the Art of Mentorship.

Grey Eminence (1941) is the English language biography of Leclerc by Aldous Huxley.

He was the original éminence grise - the French term ("grey eminence") for a powerful advisor or decision-maker who operates secretly or unofficially.

Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics is a book by Aldous Huxley published in 1941.

The Ragusan grey eminence, state censor Luka (Goran Grgić), decides to use this opportunity to crack down on Držić's company.

Because of his closeness to Richelieu, and the grey colour of his robes, Father Joseph was also nicknamed l'Éminence grise ("the Grey Eminence").

But she is, perhaps, the foremost link between her father, the Great Orator of the Industrial Radical Party, and Charles Babbage, the Party's grey eminence and foremost social theorist.

The book was rediscovered by Aldous Huxley in the 1940s and summarised in his book Grey Eminence as an example of the common ground between Eastern and Western mysticism.

The Red Eminence and the Grey Eminences has been described by the Washington Post newspaper in the US as "the Iranian equivalent of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago".

In theatre, Calles is recognized for her major touring productions: Cuento de La Llorona/Tale of the Wailing Woman, and The Grey Eminence of Taos.

By then, Martins approached then fellow student leader José Dirceu, who was to become a founding member of the Workers Party and a grey eminence behind Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

From 1964 until he retired from CBS in 1977 Sevareid's two-minute segments on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite inspired those who endeared him to dub him "The Grey Eminence."

Born in Neu-Sallenthin, Usedom, Richter is little known for his own works but found worldwide celebrity and acknowledgment as initiator, moving spirit and "grey eminence" of the Group 47, the most important literary association of the German Federal Republic of the post-war period.

For Philip Thody, a professor of French literature, Huxley's revelations made him conscious of the objections that had been put forward to his theory of mysticism set out in Eyeless in Gaza and Grey Eminence, and consequently Island reveals a more humane philosophy.

I was the gray eminence who would float through the hallways.

He has since become one of Wall Street's gray eminences.

The gray eminence persona, which Bill usually adopted when things were happening.

I'm not entirely sure at what point I went from eager young cadet to gray eminence.

Bill was sometimes a young and energetic companion, sometimes a gray eminence.

All of our time will go to some grey eminence who hasn't had an idea in her head for fifty years."

"There's no gray eminence in that campaign except Jesse.

"I'm a little young to be a Gray Eminence.

Bob Dole lost to Bill Clinton in 1996, but has remained a gray eminence within the party.

To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence."

"He's the gray eminence," said Chuck Prince, the chief operating officer.

The brother of his 'gray eminence' made his fortune here."

From gray eminence to great white (or, even better, black) hope, Colin Powell has been injected into our fantasies.

If there is a gray eminence in this Government, it is Warren Christopher.

Maecenas was a grey eminence, a diplomat, a dealer in men's fates.

Krendler was a climber, the gray eminence at the shoulder of the Inspector General.

In Ms. Anderson's segment, the white wing chair is a stand-in for those gray eminences who introduce programs on public television.

Karl Lagerfeld is the gray eminence of fashion, understanding where the winds of change are blowing and, indeed, helping them along.

Perhaps it will be as great as that of the gray eminence, James J. Angleton.

These spoofs on international events are usually presented in an anti-Bush manner, mocking the fact that grey eminences lead the politic, not the president himself.

Grey Eminence (1941)

The tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson, a gray eminence of the jazz underground from Chicago, makes music that sounds as if it's all middle.

John Sullivan, the expedition's other gray eminence, leaned against a wharfhouse wall, arms crossed, smiling faintly under a broad straw hat.

Or Pere Joseph arrived to manipulate Cardinal Richelieu as his "gray eminence."