The phrase "a cursory description" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that the description is brief and lacks detail.
Example: "The report provided a cursory description of the project's objectives, leaving out important specifics."
Alternatives: "a brief overview" or "a superficial summary."
So a whole article and not even a cursory description as to why so many people use apple cider vinegar for heartburn?
Because it is not seen as a material issue, most food companies either do not report on farm animal welfare at all or, if they do, they provide at best a cursory description of their approach.
Space limitations preclude even a cursory description of all the works, but there were also inventive and involving contributions from Augusta Read Thomas, Filippo Del Corno, Carlo Boccadoro, John Harbison, David Crumb, William Bolcom and Gerald Levinson.
Also providing a cursory description of gold mining prospects in the region, Clark criticised the actions of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Warton, who was in the vicinity representing the North Charterland Exploration Company, a BSAC subsidiary.
Please provide the primary description of the genomes in the supplement including a cursory description of major metabolic pathways.
Only a cursory description of the methods used to search for repeats are provided in the body of the manuscript.
To partially circumvent the unavoidable cursory description, a large bibliographic analysis is presented to allow the interested reader to scrutinize.
Dame Edna's cantata was so close to being a matter-of-fact, if cursory, description of Australian history that the evening took on the feeling of a hugely dull school trip.
He has abstained throughout not only from assessment, but from anything other than the most cursory description of Lewis's work as an artist and writer.
Table 1 lists 8 descriptors (most of them obscure as we have not been given even the most cursory description of them) and that they show a group effect "in at least one" domain.
In particular, Clanton's cursory description of Barton W. Stone as "the other half [End Page 289] of the Stone-Campbell duo" sheds little light on why Campbell went to such great lengths to woo the Kentucky revivalist, though both men shared a common commitment to scripturally rational primitive Christianity, formalizing the merger of their churches in 1832 (p. 10).
