The phrase "insidious violence" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe violence that is subtle, gradual, or deceptive, often causing harm without immediate recognition.
Example: "The insidious violence in the community often goes unnoticed until it has already taken a toll on its residents."
Alternatives: "covert aggression" or "subtle brutality."
In "Dirty Girl," we're introduced to Peggy Mary Steenburgenn), a woman who epitomizes victims of perhaps the most common and insidious form of violence, a psychological abuse which few talk about, believe when they hear about it or even view as violence.
It is so rare, when dealing with issues as ingrained and insidious as sexual violence, to be able to point to concrete solutions that could make a real difference.
Parents are always being told to limit the time their kids face a screen: the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends zero television viewing for children younger than 2, and no more than an hour or two a day for children older than that, to avoid insidious messages about violence, sex and gender roles and because the doctors think that there are better things to do.
What is most insidious in domestic violence is that it embeds itself in a love relationship, often women live in hope that the situation will be resolved.
These conditions arise from apathy and ignorance, which together wreak an insidious form of violence: worse than war because it is daily, it is unrelenting, and because it is indiscriminate as it deteriorates the human potential to prosper.
However, even in peacetime, children are increasingly the victims of more insidious forms of violence - in their homes, at school, and in their communities.
Even Pythagoras would qualify, because of his writings on nonviolence and appreciation for the more-insidious form of violence called structural violence, which kills people slowly by depriving them of basic need satisfaction (e.g., poverty).
Denying people access to value is an incredibly insidious form of emotional violence, one that our culture wields aggressively and liberally to keep marginalised groups small and quiet.
Attention spans were also being damaged by frenetic cartoons like Tom and Jerry – which also trivialised violence, while insidious adverts were creating a generation of undiscerning slaves to the consumer culture.
"I wanted to write a play about quite insidious, inherent forms of violence that occur within a capitalist system," says writer Lulu Raczka, who is in the process of collaboratively devising the show with the rest of the company.
