The phrase "a vortex of violence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a chaotic or intense situation characterized by violence, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The city had become a vortex of violence, with crime rates soaring and communities in turmoil."
Alternatives: "a whirlwind of violence" or "a maelstrom of violence".
South Sudan, born six months ago in great jubilation, is plunging into a vortex of violence.
Over the following three days, the strike tumbled into a vortex of violence.
SLIDE SHOW South Sudan, born six months ago in great jubilation, is plunging into a vortex of violence.
The rebels who have encircled this strategic city in eastern Congo, sending the region down a vortex of violence and uncertainty once again, seemed to be respecting a unilateral truce they declared on Wednesday night.
According to the Observer, the book is part of a wave of "Generation Z" novels, in which "melancholy young heroes seek an answer to their anguish by sitting alone on top of high buildings for hours pondering their plight or by plunging into a vortex of violence, alcohol and karaoke".
In particular, one element of Anderson's direction offers kinetic invention — his taste for sudden action bursting into the frame, which, during the movie's early scenes of a suburban setup (when an ordinary family finds itself thrust into a vortex of violence), occur with such a regular and ludicrous insistence that I expected the rest of the film to ramp it up into out-and-out comedy.
The president's unusually direct involvement in the Middle East situation reflected what administration officials said was a growing fear that without more assertive involvement from Washington, the chances to settle the Israeli-Palestinian disputes could disappear into a vortex of more violence.
The 13 previous attempts at forming one all failed, disappearing down a vortex of clan-driven violence and suspicion.
I still think there's a way out of this vortex of violence but time may not be on our side.
Libya has become a vortex of radical jihadism and political violence that is both drawing in a broad area of North Africa from Morocco to Somalia, while at the same time spewing unrest throughout the region.
Nor is the most urgent issue right now, who has a right to do what, but rather how to stop the expanding vortex of violence that is taking lives and horrifically terrorizing two peoples.
