The phrase "a quick description" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to provide a brief overview or summary of something.
Example: "Before we dive into the details, let me give you a quick description of the project goals."
Alternatives: "a brief overview" or "a short summary."
Below is a quick description of each mode.
I'll end this post with a quick description of the image at the top.
So, that was kind of a quick description of the–I've said, different personalities go into different parts of finance.
Usually, though, you see the headline of each item and a quick description of the article, or maybe the first few paragraphs and an accompanying picture.
Immersion in far-flung situations by simple, seemingly magical means could serve as a quick description of Mr. Harrison's restless theatrical aesthetic.
That about sums up "The President," a madcap comedy that deserves such a quick description, given that its breathless characters never slow down.
Now, just 195 more to go! Get your school lunch cheat sheet by liking One Hungry Mama on Facebook where Stacie posts a picture and quick description of every school lunch she makes.
Easy Taxi already names Payleven, the Rocket Internet-backed mobile payment service ("Square clone" if want the quick description), as a partner, to help some drivers take payments more easily on the fly.
The despairing are unlikely to be convinced by this quick description, so for a better sense of the lukewarmist case, I recommend two recent essays by Oren Cass of the Manhattan Institute: First, "The Problem With Climate Catastrophizing," from Foreign Affairs, and second, "How to Worry About Climate Change," from National Affairs.
To this end, we have developed a software tool permitting the patient's primary doctor to have a quick, summarised description of the patient's updated pharmacological treatments, and detect iatrogenic risks and/or dosage adjustments and pharmacotherapy advice.
A quick, glib description of this self-consciously literary novel might go something like this: a contemporary New York variation on "The Brothers Karamazov," featuring a J. D. Salinger-like writer in the role of Father, and a protagonist who turns out to be as questionable a tour guide as the notoriously unreliable narrator of Ford Madox Ford's classic "The Good Soldier".
