The phrase 'a brutal act of' is correct and can be used in written English.
You could use this phrase when describing an act of great violence or inhumanity. For example: "The dictator carried out a brutal act of genocide against the people of his own country."
But the unique nature of this downturn -- sealed by a brutal act of terrorism -- also means that recovery may come as America begins the process of healing.
The defendants confessed to carrying out the murder as a brutal act of revenge for the killing of three Jewish teenagers in the West Bank, who had been buried the previous day.
With its headline callouts to Jay Z and Willie Nelson on the current issue, and a history of hosting rock luminaries, there were suggestions that the magazine was conferring iconic status on a man who has been charged with a brutal act of terrorism.
Whether it's a tragedy about a model whose father is dying after having committed a brutal act of violence, or a fairy tale about heart and body and aloneness, or a fascinating romp involving a prep school as we've never seen one before, or an unexpectedly moving story of a fox and his lover, Oyeyemi's writing is gorgeous and resonant and fresh.
The man, Dahiru Adamu, 25, was crouching on the floor in the sprawling police headquarters here, summoned to give an accounting of the terrible night of March 7, when, he said, he and dozens of other herdsmen descended on a slumbering village just south of here and slaughtered hundreds with machetes, knives and cutlasses in a brutal act of sectarian retribution.
He committed a brutal act of terrorism.
Furthermore, musical brutality need not involve a brutal act, for a "song of vilification is in itself an act of social violence".
Lisbeth's dealings with Bjurman include a vicious rape and a correspondingly brutal act of revenge, and there is something prurient and salacious about the way the initial assault is filmed.
So, the violence is very graphic, and it's very curated, meaning when I want to rub your face in a very brutal act of violence, it's because this is exactly what the characters are having to face.
It's a common refrain, the usual condemnation of a brutal act by Islamists inspired by religious ideology, by their own admission, and the flat out refusal by well meaning liberals to even consider that such brutality could be inspired by religion.
It was an especially brutal act of prejudice because up to 1960 Rustin had engineered much of the construction of Martin Luther King, Jr.
