She figured as a gray eminence.

He won eminence as a scientist.

The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

He reined up his horse on the top of a gentle eminence, from which he observed the busy and gay scene beneath him.