"the mere description" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize that a description does not do justice to a situation, or that a description fails to capture the full scope of the situation. For example, "The mere description of the breathtaking view from the top of the mountain fails to capture its true beauty."
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.
That, mutatis mutandis, is the problem facing palaeontologists who wish, as most do, to go beyond the mere description of bones and fill in details of the lives that the animals they study once led.
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".
The mere description of new species is no longer viewed as indicating original research.
For that purpose, we need to introduce accurate notation, unfortunately a bit more involved than needed for the mere description of the algorithmic steps.
In the past, studies about the Mekele outlier focused mainly in the mere description of the stratigraphic and tectonic settings without taking into account the feedback between surface and deep processes in shaping such peculiar feature.
But he didn't want to begin the novel with mere description.
In this article we proposed a way for opening the black box of QIC's, going beyond a mere description of the elements or the extent to which they are implemented.
But a mere description of the physical evolution of the DSM doesn't fully capture what Spitzer was able to accomplish.
But according to Kenyon, despite assurances that use of the shadowhunter term would not be expanded, "[Clare] has persisted over time in expanding her use of the term 'shadowhunters' from a mere description of her protagonists, first to a tag line on the cover of her works and eventually to a complete rebranding of her works so as to be confusingly similar to the Dark-Hunter Series".
Normally, little interest is taken in the SD, as for any particular set of examination marks it provides what appears to be a fixed constant, a mere description of the particular candidates who happened to be taking the exam, and whose only use is in calculating SEM.
