Bayley's departure left the creative side of the project in the hands of such eminences grises as Michael Grade, Simon Jenkins and Floella Benjamin.
The premise of this film, which apparently uses real people acting out loosely scripted scenes, is that young editors of a magazine called Entrisme seek him out as an éminence grise, at the same time hoping not to give "an old bore carte blanche," as one editor says.
On the one hand, eminences grises such as Gus O'Donnell (chosen randomly as the most recent example) connect living standards to the disenchantment.
From Brownsville in Brooklyn, Ka was briefly a member of the mid-1990s underground hip-hop crew Natural Elements, but he's far better as an éminence grise than he was as an upstart.
Now in his 70s (or 80s, depending on the source) — and more éminence blanc, thanks to his powdered ponytail, than éminence grise — the German-born designer remains as prolific as he is tenacious, with a terse wit and a predilection for Delphic pronouncements.
He seems to relish his status as eminence grise of the party.
(For me, Lisa Moore, closely linked to the music of her husband, Martin Bresnick, and other Yale-connected composers, serves as éminence grise).
But Mr Diepgen has continued to cling to his former eminence grise, getting him elected as deputy party chairman in the city.So the Social Democrats have at last decided that enough is enough.
He is an éminence grise of Wall Street, as a very long list of extra-curricular positions attests.There is rich material here for at least two kinds of book.
That was the view of Jo Maso, curly-haired team manager and éminence grise of French rugby, as he and his players savoured an eighth grand slam in the small hours of Sunday morning in the bowels of Stade de France.
