The phrase "a devastating description of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a portrayal or account that has a strong emotional impact, often conveying sadness or destruction.
Example: "The author provided a devastating description of the aftermath of the hurricane, leaving readers in shock."
Alternatives: "a heartbreaking account of" or "a harrowing depiction of".
Prosecutors led Ms. Elliott, based on her grand jury testimony, which had not been disclosed to the defense, through a devastating description of Mr. Diallo's last moments.
A devastating description of the program is given in a new book, "Stealing Lives," by Arturo J. Marcano Guevara and David P. Fidler.
In the novel, Plath provides a devastating description of a sexual assault at a country club in the suburbs of New York involving Esther, her alter ego, and Marco, a wealthy Peruvian, and a friend of disc jockey Lenny Shepherd.
In America, Matthew Scully, a conservative Christian, a past literary editor of National Review and now speech writer to President Bush, has amazed his fellow conservatives by publishing Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals and the Call to Mercy, an eloquent polemic against abuse of animals, culminating with a devastating description of factory farming.
The most devastating description of his government was provided by a former US marine captain, Matthew Hoh, who resigned as a US foreign serviceman in Zabul province.
The devastating description of the then chancellor, which was splashed across the front page of the Observer, had an immediate impact on relations between the two men.
There are brief, but no less devastating descriptions of country house life and the servile imbecility to which it has reduced characters such as the narrator's own mother and his cousin Nicodemus.
A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, offered a description of a far more devastating attack.
Cole [ 1995] provides a poignant description of the devastating consequences for one patient which sudden loss of large-diameter afferents had for motor control.
This is a devastating confirmation of that".
Coccidiodal meningitis is a devastating complication of disseminated coccidioidomycosis.
