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How to pronounce eminence grise in English?

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Type of important person, influential person, personage


the President's wife is an eminence grise in matters of education.

Examples of eminence grise

eminence grise
Once the whiz kid of Finland's musical world, Salonen is now its eminence grise.
From the bloomberg.com
Some say he virtually ran the country as the eminence grise behind the president.
From the sfgate.com
How our place in history determines us, by Temple philosophy's eminence grise.
From the philly.com
If there is an eminence grise among living American artists, that man is Clyfford Still.
From the time.com
In 2003, she was 23 years old and Strauss-Kahn was an eminence grise of France's Socialist party.
From the guardian.co.uk
He did not get where he is today as the newspaper industry's eminence grise par excellence by accident.
From the guardian.co.uk
However, as the Pope's conservative eminence grise, the Cardinal is also one of the most despised men in Catholicism.
From the time.com
The country's first prime minister and current eminence grise, Lee Kuan Yew, was determined to change reality.
From the forbes.com
Baumann is the eminence grise of the Chancellery.
From the independent.co.uk