And black velvet gloves, at least on his left hand.

The feel of his mouth was like a velvet glove around my flesh.

But the velvet glove has not been wholly effective either.

Before the next tide came the Government had removed the velvet glove.

The iron within was beginning to crush the velvet glove.

One needed to keep an iron fist yes, but in a velvet glove.

He'll be scared to death, and I want him handled with velvet gloves.

For one thing, the bill is a velvet glove.

I was a case calling for the velvet glove rather than the iron fist, if he wanted to get anything from me.

Hay was the velvet glove, Roosevelt the hand of steel.

"The real question is whether the authorities plan to use a velvet glove or an iron fist."

Then came a young man with a blond mane and velvet gloves.

Paul Nurse is clearly an iron fist inside a velvet glove.

At such a time, he went on, "velvet gloves are essential for winning the war against terrorism and making American foreign policy work."

Without irony, she calls this "ruling with a velvet glove."

The patients, no matter how lively, are treated with velvet gloves, but kept under strict watch.

One American trade official calls the strategy "an iron fist in a velvet glove."

That would be the legislative equivalent of a slap across the face with a velvet glove.

The coroner handled her with two pairs of velvet gloves.

"One of those iron hands in a velvet glove, Warren.

I don't intend to handle the Aras with velvet gloves.

As all his controversies prove, he was perhaps a perfect example of the iron hand in the velvet glove.

Most people, when they're in a position of power, put on velvet gloves and mute their song."