velvet

“Anything that detracted from his game plan at that time, he would squash it, but he did it with velvet gloves.”

Its Waitrose supermarkets has a whodunit two-parter which leaves audiences on a cliffhanger, starring Succession's Matthew Macfadyen as a detective on the hunt to uncover who has stolen the family's red velvet cake.

The textures and the velvet and sequins of the time never went away.

We listened in rapt, reverential awe, cozied by Vienna’s velvet strings, velvet winds and velvet brass woven together in a perfect tapestry of lush sonic textures and instrumental colors.

In place of velvet and luxuriant lushness, there was fixating intensity and raw power.