The phrase "hidden violence" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to acts of violence that are not overt or obvious, but are still present and damaging. An example sentence using "hidden violence" could be: "The protagonist in the novel suffered from years of hidden violence at the hands of her abusive partner, leaving her with deep emotional scars."
On Universal Children's Day, put hidden violence and abuse in the spotlight, says UNICEF 20 November 2013 – As the world marks Universal Children's Day, UNICEF is urging a much stronger light be shone on the millions of children in every country and at every level of society who are victims of violence and abuse that continue to go unnoticed.
Children unfortunately continue to bear the biggest burden of one of the most protracted man-made disasters.... On Universal Children's Day, put hidden violence and abuse in the spotlight, says UNICEF Khartoum – January 21 , 2016 The last weeks have once again seen an escalation in violence in the Blue Nile, Darfur region and Nuba Mountains.
It's time to put a stop to hidden violence and abuse.
Teenagers in a future with some sort of separation system and a hidden violence or secret of some sort.
Thérèse sees things around her with a lot of distance, she analyses all the familiar conventions, that hypocrisy, the hidden violence that is omnipresent.
Something that was once a mortal combat is now a skilled sport, but what Harold Pinter called the "hidden violence" of cricket could equally be applied to fencing.
Vesuvius, hiding its violence under a placid appearance, is a metaphor for the unreliability of our eyes.
But as Fintan O'Toole commented in the Irish Times: "There are still tens of thousands of gay men and lesbians who are in hiding from violence, contempt and ignorance.
The Myanmar government is eliminating an ethnic group systematically and hiding their violence from the eyes of the international community.
Among men today, there is violence hidden under the virtue, and virtue hidden under the violence.
In a sense, there is no other way for Mr. Shinn to tell his story, because its very subject is the lurking violence hidden in the everyday, in the little assaults that people inflict on one another in the name of family love or, more often, sexual love.
