Sentence examples for velvet world from inspiring English sources

McCain's velvet world leaves him utterly unprepared to make the tough choices we need to restore the middle class and ensure that everyone in America has quality, affordable health insurance.

Such exquisite pranks seem far removed from the dark-velvet world of Péladan, yet Satie, too, shared in the mystical preoccupations of his generation.

Thirteen, Feel and Watch the Sunrise – the record is a classic and the ultimate statement in a post-Beatles, post-Velvet Underground world.

McOnie's production doesn't always flow fluidly as it moves from one set piece to another, but it offers a nod to Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge in its creation of a red velvet, chocolate-box world within a world, via Soutra Gilmour's design, in which tat and glitter, light and darkness exist side by side.

Over the years, Ford has given the world velvet hip-huggers, fringed and beaded jeans, rhinestone encrusted jackets and any number of slinky gowns.

Infatuated with the Velvet Underground's world of drag queens and sneering, bitchy putdowns, Bowie seemed to realise that, for all the generation-gap-rendering shocks that British rock music had delivered over the preceding decade, it had never really dared touch on the subject of homosexuality.

He creates a context for himself that allows him the luxury of illusion and old-world technique while still being able to cross the art-world velvet rope.

Thick walls and velvet curtains excluded the world outside.

Velvet Petal has its world premiere at Teatro de la Danza, Mexico City, on 12 October.

And leave room for dessert: it does the best red velvet cake in the world.

Although he seems to be continually hovering just outside the club door, the serious art world's velvet ropes have never been let down for him.