The phrase "face distorted" is both correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe an expression or emotion that has been altered or contorted in some way. For example, you might write, "The man's face distorted in rage as he shouted at the store clerk."
But perhaps my glimpse of her face distorted by mirthless laughter sufficed for my journalist's purpose.
The picture showed his face distorted by a deep, bloody cleft in his right cheek.
The second man is hit and we see his face distorted in pain before time speeds to normal and Max walks forward to strip the bodies of ammunition.
Instead, you just see her face distorted in a fish-eye, as she tearfully says good bye to her sister and father.
Make sure he doesn't eat too much salt," a Greek nurse says to her, as the Syrian is transferred to an ambulance, his face distorted with pain.
Ringsiders were mesmerized by the unrelenting, unerring attack Chavez managed before the fight was stopped in the 11th round with Rosario's face distorted from punches and Chavez declared the winner.
Many scenes re-create Poitras's hotel-room documentary almost to the frame — in one case, literally, when one side of Snowden's rectangular eyeglasses, jutting past his face, distorts the field of view.
The forehead twisted in a way that no natural face could, but the effect was not jarring, perhaps because movies have made the impossible countenance a familiar thing: the slow-motion punch, the face distorting into exaggerated ripples, assisted by C.G.I.
I erupted in sheer panic, pleading with Mom not to leave, my face distorting in ugliness, tears caked onto my cheeks.
Don't overdo it, or your face will look distorted; just a bit of a squint will add the appropriate twinkle to your eye.
He means the bit under the in-vehicle toilet, and having mentioned it immediately screws up his face – grimace distorting the mouth-framing goatee, frown sending out ropes of shoulder-length hair from behind his ears.
