"compassionate face" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the facial expression someone makes when they are being kind and empathetic. For example, "Sally looked at me with a compassionate face, showing understanding and sympathy for my situation."
Genetics today, however, presents a kinder, more compassionate face.
The Commish screwed up his most compassionate face and said he was working on a solution.
The sound of his voice and the story behind his smiling, compassionate face make me want to play my own part in making the continent a better place.
President Bush dumped Senator Lott in favor of Dr. Frist, who has cared for AIDS patients in Africa, so conservatives could have a more compassionate face.
At moments, as now, she felt closer to Ghulam Rasool than to anyone else in Pakistan, his large dark compassionate face, heavy body, his shrewd and yet ponderous manner, his orthodox unshakable beliefs.
The film's raven-haired heroine, by contrast, soothes savage beasts with her compassionate face and, as a digitally miniaturized Bob Hoskins, playing one of the seven dwarfs, proclaims: "she will heal the land".
I blacked out for a moment, and when I opened my eyes again, there looking down at me were a dozen compassionate faces — some horses' faces actually, but mostly kind New Yorkers.
Now, rather than seeing the tolerant, kindly faces of doctors indulging their anxious patient, I saw the stern and compassionate faces of doctors trying to make life and death decisions.
Many boys are taught not to cry, but you both know that it can make you feel better, right?" They nodded, giant flakes of pastry covering their beautiful compassionate faces, the table, their books, the floor.
He opened his eyes to see Mr. Bush "with the most compassionate look on his face," Mr. Kress recalls.
We know, from our own history, and from recent events around the continent, that the ICC is many things, but it is also the new missionary who comes to save us from ourselves with a compassionate look on his face and a Bible in his hand.
