"shattered face" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a face that has been badly injured or damaged, often as a result of a physical impact or intense emotional distress. Example: The poor man stumbled out of the car accident with a shattered face, blood streaming from the deep gashes on his forehead and cheeks.
He required numerous surgeries on his shattered face, and stayed in the hospital for several weeks.
And what word would you use for the shattered face of a mountainside, if not scar?
Captain Riley Purefoy, the central character in My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You, has been discharged from Queen's after extensive surgery on his shattered face, and is about to marry his childhood love, Nadine Waveney.
The green birdcage of "Portrait of an Artist in Crisis" holds a shattered face and a pair of spidery hands wielding a paint brush to apply color to a small pile of excrement.
The mournful soft whistle of tysties – black guillemots – drifts from the end of the bay where they nest in a tumble of rock on the shattered face of a craggy buttress.
Hyams is a flamboyant director — the opening sequence is done as an extended tracking shot, from John's point of view, including the horrific impact of blows from a crowbar and his view of his own bloody and shattered face in the shards of a shattered mirror.
They are wearing masks, the shattered faces of Asian kids, and shout antiwar slogans.
With unthinkable lack of decency, and brilliant journalistic flair, Capote blags his way into the funeral parlour where the shooting victims are in their coffins, and actually heaves up the lids to look at the shattered faces which are swathed in a dull white material.
Achieving national unity later than other European nations, Germany quickly caught up economically and militarily, before defeats in World War I and II left the country shattered, facing the difficult legacy of Nazism, and divided between Europe's Cold War blocs.
I could still see her fake smile, trying to make something all right that really wasn't, even for her, and feel the shattered expression on my face that, as much as I tried, I couldn't hide.
And, in the case of Todd Fedoruk, that fist shattered his face and dropped him to the ice, all while officials and teammates watched, an arena full of hockey fans cheered and Boogaard's Minnesota Wild teammates banged their sticks against the boards in appreciation.
