1.   The protuberance under her fingers felt soft and hard at the same time, an iron fist in a velvet glove.

2.   This is the archetypal steel fist in a velvet glove.

3.   Even when he waves a noose, he holds it with a velvet glove.

4.   We mingle with the ladies in black velvet evening gloves selling Moet and the photographer promising to make the plain into cover girls for a day.

5.   An iron fist in a velvet glove.

6.   At the same time, George W. Bush exhibits a steel fist within the velvet glove.

7.   A multimillionaire, Chu is the iron fist in the velvet glove.

8.   But there was an iron fist in the velvet glove.

9.   Hopkins slips into the role like a lotioned hand in a velvet glove.