The phrase "a violent act of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action that involves physical force or aggression, typically in a negative context.
Example: "The news reported a violent act of vandalism that shocked the community."
Alternatives: "an act of violence" or "a brutal act of".
The disintegration of the twin towers was the result of a violent act of destruction.
It is cruel and terrible that her life was cut short by a violent act of political intolerance.
"If a kid pierces his neck with a pencil, that could be a violent act of self-destruction or it could have been nothing," Dr. Zito said.
But as has been spelled out in American documents from the constitution to the Ferguson Commission Report – there is a black America, and not naming it is a violent act of erasure.
Significantly "Rio Lobo" ends, not with a heroic gesture from the Wayne character, but with a violent act of vengeance from a suddenly empowered woman (Sherry Lansing, who went on to become a major production executive at Columbia, Fox and Paramount).
To know what happens in advance would be to spoil not just a narrative surprise in a heart-thumping tale, but the entire apparatus Vann has constructed to wrench out the dreadful and meaningless facts of existence, to master them, and, in a violent act of fictional transmogrification, to reconfigure them as something not less, but more real.
They have the potential to imprint the gruesome nature of a violent act on the consciousness of the nation.
If the significant criterion for a commonsense notion of a violent act is a likelihood of causing injury, however minor, then these kinds of acts count as acts of violence (See Morreall, 1991).
"The exaltation of emotion and the naturalization of beauty — especially of beauty — imply a revolutionary impulse for a book it takes a certain violent act of historical imagination to recover" (Sense of Beauty, xxviii).
"Given this latest article comes on the immediate heels of a violent act, we believe this type of article could incite additional violence, which violates our terms of service," the company explained in a statement accompanying the decision.
Given this latest article comes on the immediate heels of a violent act, we believe this type of article could incite additional violence, which violates our terms of service".
