"violent gesture" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe an action or movement that is forceful, aggressive, or hostile in nature. Example: The politician's speech was met with cheers and applause, but his sudden violent gesture towards the opposing party's leader caused tension in the room.
In one violent gesture, the pratfall condensed the culture's dynamism and panic.
The Porteous riots and lynching were a type of violent gesture common to the history of most old cities.
It is a radical, almost violent gesture, invigorating Ms. Takaezu's signature shapes and forms with a new vitality.
The flash of the violent gesture, for Safire, was more important than the justice of the action.
"When I got home," Verdi told his publisher years later, "I threw the manuscript on the table with a violent gesture, and stood staring at it.
"The violent gestures, the look of greed and the faces of experience are all real".
He watched them engage in a series of ambiguously violent gestures — squeeze, swat, bite, slap — which, to his eyes, indicated maternal and filial affection.
VIOLENCE The alcoholic Lou is a nasty drunk and when ambulatory terrorizes a birthday party for little children with crude remarks and violent gestures.
Much as all her contemporaries, she was influenced by Caravaggio, with high-contrast lighting effects, flesh bathed in light set off by dark shadows, contorted features, violent gestures.
The streets of Havana are even worse — the inverse of a workers' paradise, where the teeming citizens are "trapped by an anxiety that could only be relieved through shouting, violent gestures and resentful glances".
The women in her paintings, drawings and collages sometimes wear white caps, but their wide-set alien eyes, skinny, neon-tinged bodies and violent gestures convey anything but nurture.
