velvet glove
Example Sentences
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“We’ve got to a point where we can no longer be able to afford the velvet glove diplomacy.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2023
Iron fist in a velvet glove: Smiling all the while, Nan manipulates the Roy children into overpaying $10 billion just so they can outbid their now-rivalrous father.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023
A Republican colleague, Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr., once told the Herald that Ms. Meek had “a velvet glove, but sometimes she can have a fist in it. She’s so likable that it’s sometimes disarming.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2021
“It’s nice if you can put a velvet glove over the iron fist.”
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2018
He could protrude a feline set of claws from his velvet glove.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
