"Gray eminence" nghĩa là gì?
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"Gray eminence" = quyền lực vô danh -> nghĩa là người người thực thi quyền lực không chính thức, thường thông qua người khác hoặc lén lút, bí mật.
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Ahead of his Thursday, Feb. 10 talk at San Antonio's Tobin Center, controversial (gây tranh cãi) clinical psychologist Jordan "Red Skull" Peterson graced podcast The Joe Rogan Experience with his gray eminence. And during that conversation last week, the Great White Hope didn't leave us wanting for a "word salad of nonsense."
He acts as a gray eminence to rulers in the Gulf and beyond. He shuttles (qua lại như con thoi) regularly to Arab capitals and has direct access to the top levels of all groups in Syria.
The Israeli writer Amos Oz, who died on December 28th, at the age of seventy-nine, was a cultural hero in the old sense, an acolyte (thầy tu) who patiently made himself the gray eminence of a lost, or losing, cause: Labor Zionism, a vision that once qualified as a movement.
It's nostalgic now to be back in these pages, speaking as the gray eminence on the Rosewood evidence — but I bring a warning. Yes, the shocking racial cleansing that occurred in January 1923 was real, and was masked by eerie (mê tín) racist denial until 1982.
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