Sentences with phrase «in a velvet glove»

Their long - term plans are to screw us over, brick in a velvet glove, setting a trap in the floor, leading us to the trap, click.

We need to adapt and evolve, become the iron fist in a velvet glove ie play beautiful flowing football but also dominate your opposition with strength power and physicality.

The GT8 is a colt that has never before felt saddle and bridle — its equipped with harder springs, stiffer dampers, tauter bushings, more aggressive brakes and almost as much carbon - fiber wing work as a Le Mans car — and is best treated with iron hands in velvet gloves to avoid any unexpected understeer scrubs or snap - oversteer situations.

their spirit, the true essence of there uniqueness and a non judgemental heart... an iron fist in a velvet glove when needed, an artist of many facets who brings depth, warmth, and a certain...

Working in oils on aluminium panel, Early's colour - saturated mini-narratives combine the splendour of Renaissance and Romantic painting with the rawness of contemporary life, a splendid example of the iron fist in a velvet glove strategy, examining the sensitive and personal aspects of conflict, ambition and entropy in an opulent, cinematic style.

But that doesn't stop this exhibition, which wears it heart on its sleeve and sheaths its ambition in a velvet glove, from striking a blow for the girl in all of us.»

The mailed fist in the velvet glove is the extraordinary river of taxpayers» money used to force compliance.

Most of all, they require an owner capable of providing the right dose of persuasion and firmness when training them; basically an iron hand in a velvet glove.

Most recently, though, on January 7, 2017, in a speech at the American Finance Association, you seemed to step out of that centrally casted character, almost coming across as an iron fist in a velvet glove: «The bottom line is that there has not been an excessive buildup of leverage, maturity transformation, or broadly unsustainable asset prices... Overall, I do not see leveraged finance markets as posing undue financial stability risks.

A touch of the iron fist in the velvet glove, a program of assignment of students to schools by race sought to prevent black dominance, but affected it seems only a small number of pupils.

The whispery smooth 370 - horsepower V - 8 is an iron fist in a velvet glove.

With a turbocharged 4.0 - liter V8 with 469 or 503 hp, the C63 is the proverbial iron fist in a velvet glove.

Don't be misled by the Patrol's luxury fit - out and impressive refinement; it's the archetypal iron fist in a velvet glove, with superb performance both on - and off - road that has to be experienced to be appreciated.

The French call this: «An iron fist in a velvet glove».

Sitting as an arbitrator he is fair and clever, while his style of advocacy is very much that of an iron fist in a velvet glove.

I rule with an iron fist in a velvet glove.