The phrase "a brief but violent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an event or situation that is short in duration but intense in nature, often referring to actions or occurrences that involve aggression or force.
Example: "The storm was a brief but violent encounter, leaving destruction in its wake."
Alternatives: "a short yet fierce" or "a quick but brutal".
In the summer of 1995, they were accused of embarking on a brief but violent string of robberies in Clay that netted them $2,900 in cash.
After the Soviet Union fought a brief but violent border war here with Japan in the summer of 1938, though, Stalin deported most of the border region's Korean population to Central Asia.
His address, which followed a brief but violent overnight demonstration at a northern Tehran university in support of the reformers, extended the verbal and judicial attacks of the last few weeks on supporters of President Mohammad Khatami, a reformer.
(Incidentally, assumptions that Schwarzenegger is absent from this latest one have proved wide of the mark; he has a brief but violent cameo for which he appears to have been dipped in flesh-coloured latex).
In the most striking comments, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, criticized the Palestinians for their inability to remain united behind President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah — an implicit condemnation of Hamas, which took over Gaza entirely in 2007 in a brief but violent civil war with Fatah.
A brief but violent insurgency in 2001 resulted in improved rights for the country's large ethnic-Albanian minority.
But a stunning archaeological find this month — in which a skeleton that medieval scholars believe is very likely to be Richard's was unearthed under a parking lot in Leicester, England — could lead to a reassessment of his brief but violent reign.
But a stunning archaeological find this month here in the English Midlands — a skeleton that medieval scholars believe is very likely to be Richard's — could lead to a reassessment of his brief but violent reign.
In one of Britain's most dramatic modern archaeological finds, researchers here announced on Monday that skeletal remains found under a parking lot in this English Midlands city were those of King Richard III, for centuries the most widely reviled of English monarchs, paving the way for a possible reassessment of his brief but violent reign.
Most brief but violent disturbances in Earth's wind systems involve large areas of ascending and descending air.
Brief but violent clashes broke out on Sunday as loyalists attacked the first Irish republican rally to pass through Belfast city centre.
