eminence grise

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• Even before his long career in government ended, he was an éminence grise in American public life.

• “He was very bitter,” says longtime Granite State Republican eminence and former state attorney general Tom Rath.

• The eminence was asked, the next morning, “Well, you've met the young Yeats— what did you think of him?”

• Bill Clinton could have a relationship with an intern and still be greeted as an éminence grise years later.

• Or, in the case of Bob Dole, they retired to a sort of a bipartisan eminence and were mostly forgotten.

• All parties have borne testimony to the value of his services, and the eminence of his talents.

• He who has attained it grows giddy, and the fiercest winds are summoned to blow him from his eminence.

• He was the son of a miller, and raised himself to eminence by his great talent and genius as a painter.

• There was another theory promulgated many years back by certain people of some degree of eminence in their own walk in life.

• We did not perceive the little town until we had surmounted the last eminence and were in its immediate vicinity.