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When I was young at the bar I heard with delight an old lawyer, who could have played Dickens's Mr. Tulkinghorn, speak grandly of the court of nisi prius (pronouncing it NICEY PRY-US), an utterly obsolete Latinism for the simple trial court . Just as any speaker may, for the sake of euphony (or vanity) flourish an occasional eminence grise or mirabile dictu , may not a lawyer plume himself now and then with an ab initio or even a mutatis mutandis , not to “unite the priesthood’ but to savor his own sonority, as a bird sings also for itself?
D'Amato is the éminence grise (or perhaps the éminence noire ) of the corrupt Nassau County Republican machine.
As a registered pedant, I cannot refrain from posing this political trivia question: Who was the original éminence grise on whom Shearer's word play is based?