The phrase "violent hands" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to describe hands that are aggressive or forceful, often in a metaphorical or poetic sense.
Example: "The artist depicted a struggle, with violent hands reaching out in desperation."
Alternatives: "fierce hands" or "brutal hands."
Scouts love Perry's fluid explosiveness and violent hands.
The new caliph, like his predecessor, was most likely influenced by the threat of a popular uprising should he lay violent hands on a man popularly held to be a saint.
We are a sentimental, soft-hearted nation, prone to lay violent hands upon death in art by calling in play doctors and heroine specialists of the kind that "saved" the doomed Lena, of Joseph Conrad's "Victory," forty years ago, when it was made into a silent movie that was a combination of Pollyanna and Jack Holt.
She dies off-stage, with suicide being suggested as its cause when Malcolm declares that she died by "self and violent hands".
I still cannot recall the names or faces of those Pākehā kids who died at the violent hands of their caregivers.
Isaiah died in 1863, and, according to Mark Twain, "as he could no longer need that signature, I laid violent hands upon it without asking permission of the proprietor's remains".
His punching style, which, at times, looks like an aggrieved child poking at his mother's side, should never bring up comparisons to Tyson's compressed, violent hand speed.
His death was violent and ugly, but what the people he ruled over for 42 years with a violent hand wished for.
Molly Wood of CNET wrote that "[i]f the SOPA/PIPA protests were the Web's moment of inspiring, non-violent, hand-holding civil disobedience, #OpMegaUpload feels like the unsettling wave of car-burning hooligans that sweep in and incite the riot portion of the play".
He takes part in angry, highly articulate, hair-splitting debates and violent demonstrations, hands out leaflets, sprays slogans on walls.
Likewise, can't a distinction be drawn between assisting a democratic movement through unequivocal moral support for the local opposition, on the one hand, and a heavy handed, violent attempt to overthrow a despotic government and create a local opposition?
