The phrase "a scarred man" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a man who has physical scars, often implying a history of trauma or hardship.
Example: "The story revolves around a scarred man who struggles to find peace after his tumultuous past."
Alternatives: "a wounded man" or "a marked man."
But there is also wisdom here, and the momentum of a thrilling yarn, delivered as if by a scarred man by the consoling light of a fire.
A naked woman chained to a rock, a scarred man with an air of defiant jauntiness, a slightly melancholy philosophy student, and a woman ominously sharpening a meat cleaver have made the shortlist from a record entry for this year's £25,000 BP Portrait award.
In The Box – based on Matheson's story Button, Button and set in 1976 – a horribly scarred man named Arlington Steward (Frank Langella, with his beautiful baritone) shows up at the home of Arthur and Norma, a financially strapped engineer and a teacher, played by James Marsden and Cameron Diaz; he produces an odd-looking wooden box that houses a bright red button beneath a glass dome.
As a final example, Fig. 7 shows PS-OCT images from a scarred human skin.
Mr. Dadikhi, a large and scarred man who is alternately praised by many opposition activists for battlefield bravery and whispered about as an accomplished smuggler who once maintained extensive ties to the government, claims to have 1,300 armed fighters and a network of cross-border contacts.
(In "1491," a history of the Americas and their contact with Columbus, Charles Mann offers a startling image from inside this apocalypse: in 1784, a Lakota winter count — a kind of pictorial history that memorialized the year — depicted "a pox-scarred man, alone in a tipi, shooting himself". As soon as I read that, I thought of McCarthy).
The cop who locked him up was named Childress, which turns out to be the surname of the Tuttle family's illegitimate branch, and of the scarred man who presides over the ritualistic killings.
Watching Waters close-up, as he revels in playing "In the Flesh"'s machine-gun-toting fascist rock manager, and frequently smiles, it's clear that at 70 there has anyway been some healing of the scarred man behind these songs.
His latest play, "Ages of the Moon," about two emotionally scarred men in their 60s (the damaged women remain offstage) lasts about 80 minutes.
Between the attacks of cancer and the counterattacks of chemo, I dwindled to a scarred, mute no man's land.
When he started writing "A Few Good Men," with its trumpeting speeches about "code reds" and honor and the hard choices facing battle-scarred men, he was a 26-year-old slouch who had never spent a day in fatigues and who, at Scarsdale High School, hung out in the drama club.
