The phrase "a mere description" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize that something is only a simple or basic explanation without any additional significance or depth.
Example: "What he provided was a mere description of the events, lacking any analysis or insight."
Alternatives: "just a description" or "only a description".
But a mere description of the physical evolution of the DSM doesn't fully capture what Spitzer was able to accomplish.
I will assume that if you read the pledge carefully, the reference to "under God" means something more than a mere description of how somebody else once thought.
(Genzlinger) 'HAMLET' A mere description is probably all you need to know whether this production is for you: a shortened "Hamlet" performed by marionettes on a working carousel.
It obviously isn't, yet equally obviously it also isn't the racking personal confession that a mere description or précis of it might make it sound.
"I do assume that if you read the pledge carefully, the reference to 'under God' means something more than a mere description of how somebody else once thought," Justice David H. Souter said to Dr. Newdow moments later.
When reduced to a mere description — "Pass around small bits of laminated card stock in place of money" (poker), or "Roll imprinted cubes and buy fictional properties" (Monopoly) — even the most captivating games can seem impossibly boring.
In the last years, continuous refinements of high-field MRI and analysis techniques have significantly broadened our empirical possibilities to facilitate conclusions on a network level beyond mere description of regions with altered neural activation.
The specifics are worth experiencing for yourself; the over-all idea, though, is clear enough from the mere description — in a crisis of such systematic causes, only a miracle can save the poorest and most vulnerable.
Shyness as a self-fulfilling prophecy is portrayed with great tenderness in the character of Boo Radley, "an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end".
It also goes beyond mere description by providing a conceptual framework that justifies a multidimensional view of unions and quasi-union organizations that helps organize the book.
Moreover, both natural philosophers and poets believed that representing the visible world was a problem of morality rather than mere description.
