1.   Iron and steel were hard and unyielding, yet here in the machine shop, you cut them like butter.

2.   The deliberate cruelty of his words cut her like a knife.

3.   The casual cruelty of his words cut her like a knife.

4.   As a taxpayer, I like tax cuts as much as the next person.

5.   As this synopsis indicates, the emphasis here is on words and their power to excite, seduce, delude and, especially, to cut like a Ginzu.

6.   At the time, Cherokee men wore coats cut like European shirts.

7.   A navy tubular sweater was paired with below-the-knee dark teal shorts cut like parachute pants.

8.   Brawny straw-colored crocheted sweaters paired with heat-pleated pants cut like sweat pants achieved a balance of traditional maleness with pliability.

9.   But none of those losses cut him like the passing of his mother and his manager.

10.   But tax cuts like this need to be assessed in context.