The phrase "a neat description" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a clear, concise, and well-organized explanation or portrayal of something.
Example: "The author provided a neat description of the setting, allowing readers to visualize the scene effortlessly."
Alternatives: "a clear explanation" or "a tidy account."
It's a neat description of the novelist's task, too – to scrutinise those things that "shallow habits" overlook.
This allows the group to function as a giant organism". All of which is a neat description of an ant colony.
On the very last page of the book, he describes the poet Robert Hass as "sanely associative," and that makes a neat description of his own narrative strategy.
A neat description of the problems of hybrid-drive vehicles has come out of the results of the 3 year HYZEM research program undertaken by European manufacturers.
Return via the Danish King's Garden, a vantage point with great views of the Old Town. 3 p.m. 7. SOMETHING SWEET The name of Tallinn's oldest cafe still in use, Maiasmokk (Pikk 16; 372-64-64-079; kalev.ee), means "person with a sweet tooth," which is a neat description of your average Estonian.
(I'm still trying to figure out a neat description for Google+ — feel free to add yours in the comments).
It was a pretty neat description of clothes that combined bright colours, vibrant prints and, yes, plastic in shiny jewellery and dresses made from panels of Perspex.
Tan has a hard, matter-of-fact style and specialises in neat description, whether depicting a mother "teetering on her highest heels and pouring macaroni cheese into a Pyrex dish" or a laugh that sounds "like a coin in a can".
Robert Crais's neat description of Modex Hybrid, an explosive compound used in missile launchings, applies just as well to DEMOLITION ANGEL (Doubleday, $24.95), a flammable techno-thriller with the kind of force that knocks out windows.
Of course, that neat description does not account for Guilin, the pleasure spot, or Hong Kong, which both lie ahead.
Diski's subsequent work – novels, stories, memoir, travelogue that are all strikingly resistant to neat description – reflects that insistent preoccupation with naming, and with boundaries; between herself and other people, between wellness and madness, between internal and external landscapes.
