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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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