The phrase "act of depravity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a morally corrupt or wicked action.
Example: "The documentary exposed the shocking act of depravity that took place in the abandoned building."
Alternatives: "deed of immorality" or "act of wickedness".
Brian Altman QC, prosecuting, said: "In a staggering act of depravity and cruelty, they both forced the others to take part in the assaults upon Kristy.
"The more Satel talked," Mr. Cohen wrote, "the less selling my kidney seemed like some bizarre, macabre act of depravity, and the more I wondered why the hell I hadn't thought of it before".
In a "staggering act of depravity and cruelty", the defendants recruited sibling against sibling as "vehicles for their violence", with Kristy's brother forced to stand guard to make sure he did not escape.
Life, in all reality, is a balancing act -- a balancing act of depravity and morality, of your needs and the needs of others, of humor and solemnity, of individuality and commonality, of privacy and disclosure, and the list stretches on for an eternity.
Yet this isn't a Chapmans-style Hell, their enormous vitrines full of Nazi toy soldiers committing acts of depravity.
One of the classics, "Red Angel," by Yasuzo Masumura, from 1966, newly released by the enterprising San Francisco-based distributor Fantoma, goes farther than "Letters from Iwo Jima" in depicting extraordinary acts of depravity and humanity within the ranks of the Imperial Army.
One of the more memorable acts of depravity involves an initiation process in which blindfolded newbie Alistair Ryle, played by Sam Claflin, has to quaff some wine and guess the vintage.
The tale begins with the director Julian Jarrold's "Red Riding: 1974" (2009), about an arrogant, lustful crime reporter (Andrew Garfield) who uncovers acts of depravity as he pursues a connection between the murder of a child and two unsolved cases of missing girls.
Cue Sutton, sucking his cheeks in, a man with the curt, brutishly disappointed look of a Cambridge-educated assistant games master who once played hockey for England but now finds himself reduced to disciplining adolescents for acts of depravity in the junior boarding house.
Before and during Wright's trial, Blythe, a former actor turned experimental playwright, ingratiated herself with the residents of London Road who, for those few weeks in late 2006, were caught in the salacious, judgmental way in which Britain, as a nation, responds to such acts of depravity.
He also referenced recent attacks in the United Kingdom and Egypt to point out that such "acts of depravity... are directly contrary to the spirit of Ramadan".
