The phrase "master of violence" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used to describe a person who is particularly adept at using violence, either in a literal or figurative sense. For example, you could say: "He was a master of violence, regularly using his fists to keep the other gangs in line."
Yet that master of violence Elmore Leonard, "the greatest American novelist never to be mentioned in the same breath as 'Nobel Prize,' " grew up in a "wholly uncriminal, mildly bookish" household.
But, in his case, maybe a little more so, because, as an F.B.I. agent, he's a master of violence who makes his living among and against the worst of humanity or, rather, inhumanity.
A harsh word is never spoken to either of them, particularly not by Newland's sugar-sweet fiancée (Winona Ryder), but the people around them are masters of civilized violence -- Friday at midnight on TCM.
Women have mastered the articulation of violence on behalf of national liberation movements, including the Jewish liberation movement called Zionism, the claim of a material right to land and sovereignty in the ancient territory of Palestine.
So, I have a lot respect for him in mastering that world of violence and intimidation.
Indeed, the government, a master in the art of violence, intrusion, surveillance and criminalizing harmless activities, has repeatedly attempted to clamp down on First Amendment activity on the web and in social media under the various guises of fighting terrorism, discouraging cyberbullying, and combatting violence.
The director of "Fight Club," "Zodiac," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a master of sullen menace, convulsive violence; he loves creating an aura of the magical and the uncanny.
There have been some choice monikers since, including Le Roi Crazy (Jerry Lewis), The Master of Disaster (Irwin Allen) and The Visconti of Violence (Dario Argento).
This view gave way to negative assessments of Adams in the first half of the 20th century, in which he was portrayed as a master of propaganda who provoked mob violence to achieve his goals.
His master's thesis was entitled "Anarchism and the Morality of Violence", and it compared Godwin, Proudhon and Bakunin.
Years of violence followed.
