The phrase "a devastating feature of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a particularly harmful or impactful aspect of something, often in a negative context.
Example: "The report highlighted a devastating feature of climate change: the rapid loss of biodiversity."
Alternatives: "a catastrophic aspect of" or "a harmful element of".
The lightning was the most devastating feature of a storm system that crashed down power lines and dropped mothball-sized hailstones, causing three-hour delays at airports and interrupting power to more than 100,000 homes in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), whether by direct impact or due to blast wave effects, is an all-too-common and devastating feature of armed conflict.
The loss of cognitive function is the most devastating feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and is likely to involve a dysfunction of entorhinal-hippocampal circuitry [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].
In particular, disseminated (that is, systemic) endothelial activation/injury is a devastating but common feature of the hosts' (often disproportionate) immune response.
He scored two tries, the second featuring a devastating run of steps and explosive muscle early in the second half to pull Leicester back to within seven points, and had a hand in two others.
It crackles with epigrammatic mischief and reminded me of Charles Dantzig's great Dictionnaire égoïste de la littérature française, a book that features a devastating skewering of Sartre and a spirited defence of the adjective, plus essays on ignorance, clichés, therapy (against it), digressions (for) and lettres.
A tornado is fundamentally a devastating airflow featuring simultaneous translation and rotation.
And, if you're down for a devastating double-feature, watch The Night Porter afterward.
Both Sides Now is one of her signature songs: it won her a Grammy award in 1969, made Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and was featured in a devastating scene of Love Actually.
