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How to use eminence grise in a sentence

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A Texan gentleman with private means, he has been the eminence grise behind four relatively liberal Texas governors.
As an eminence grise of the Republic, he continued to participate in public life, above party quarrels.
But Foran was more than an eminence grise exerting control behind the scenes.
But Harry Hopkins was no mere manipulator of people and ideas, no eminence grise masterminding the actions of figureheads.
Direct your criticism where everybody knows it should go eminence grise, Mike Ashley.
Nominally a military dictatorship, the government of General Umar Hasan al-Bashir has since 1989 come dramatically under the influence of its radical Islamist eminence grise, Hasan al-Turabi.
Americans have written about him as the eminence grise behind attacks on American troops in Iraq.
But Eminence Grise didn't agree with Mr Pickles being labelled a fat cat.
Examples from Classical Literature
And I consider myself a young Turk in the newsroom, even though the actual young Turks think of me as some sort of bumbling eminence grise.
Louis Aragon, an eminence grise of the French Communist party, took an interest in the production and lobbied the Soviet authorities on Plisetskaya's behalf.
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