The phrase "a deliberate effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an intentional outcome or impact that someone aims to achieve through their actions or choices.
Example: "The artist aimed for a deliberate effect in her painting, using bold colors to evoke strong emotions."
Alternatives: "an intentional impact" or "a purposeful outcome."
In his book "The Death of a President" (Harper & Row, 1967), William Manchester told how the broken note would "be widely regarded as a deliberate effect".
The ceilings consisted of a series of poorly aligned concrete slabs with deep grooves separating them, and covered in pockmarked stubble (a deliberate effect).
He recovered from them quickly enough that you wondered if that slight sense of distraction was a deliberate effect (however puzzling).
There were some missteps in faster songs, including "Wetterfahne," in which the rapidity of the words tripped up the singer's pitches and his dynamics veered as uncontrolledly as the wind-jerked weather vane, perhaps a deliberate effect but a mistaken one.
The Manhattan streets unspool outside like a back projection whose unreality is, probably, a deliberate effect; a function of Packer's mind, a faintly delirious symptom of someone whose wealth has grown to such extremes that it cannot be enjoyed or even understood in any conventional way.
But this is the first thing that is really planetary scale with a deliberate effect.
"Sexual violence is a weapon, used to deliberate effect to achieve military or political objectives.
In her new all-female quartet, Gill's constructions and deconstructions, already foregrounded by the abstracting, deliberate effect of her dancers, are further clarified by means of a square grid on the floor.
Opacity and ambiguity can be deliberate effects in modernist writing: sometimes the text goes dark, reference becomes uncertain, language aspires to the condition of music.
So I started experimenting with that, trying to create really deliberate effects and to organize the accidental things that were happening.
So I started experimenting with that, trying to create really deliberate effects and to organise the accidental things that were happening.
